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Charles Babbage
English mathmetician Charles Babbage concieves of a steamdriven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English goverment is a failure. More than a century later, however, the worlds first computer was actually built. -
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Herman Hollierith
Designed a puch card to calculate the 1880 cencus, acomplishing the task in just three years and saving the goverment $5 million. He establishes a company that would ultimately become IBM. ( IBM was founded in 1911 ) -
J.V. Atanasoff
A proffeser of physics and mathmatics at lowa State University, attempts to build the first computer with gears, cams, belts or shafts. -
Atanasoff
Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously. This marks the first time a computer is able to store information on its main memory. -
ENIAC
Two University of Pennysvalia proffesers - John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert - build the Electronic Numrical Integrator and Calculator ( ENIAC ). Considered the grandfather to digital computers, it fills a 20 foot by 40 foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes. -
Univac
Mauchuly and Presper Leave the University of Pennsyvaina and recieve funding from the cencus burea to build the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government aplications. -
Grace Hopper
Grace hopper develops the first computer launguage, which eventually becomes known as COBOL. Inventor Thomas Johnson Watson, Jr., Son of IBM CEO, Thomas Johnson Watson, Sr., concievs the IBM 701 EDPM to the united states keep tabs on Korea during the war -
Fortran
The Fortran programing language is born. -
Intergrated circut
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unviel the Intergrated Circut, known as the computer chip. -
G.U.I.
Douglas Englbert shows a modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface. -
DRAM
The newly formed intel unviels the intel 1103, the first access memory chip. -
Floppy Disk
Alan Shugart leads a team of IMB Who actually invent the floppy disk allowing to share data among computers. -
Ethernet
Robert Macalfe invents the Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and hardware. -
Personal computers
A number of personal computers hit the market. -
IBM 5100
The IBM 5100 becomes the first commercialy aviable portable computer. -
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start apple computers on April fool's day and rolled out the Apple 1, the first computer with a single-circut board. -
TRS-80
Radio shacks intintial production ran of the TRS-80 was just 3,000. -
Visicalc
Accountants rejoce at the introduction of Visicalc. -
Word Proccesing
Word proccesing becomes a reality. -
Gaming Machines
PC's become gaming machines. -
Ipad
Apple release the ipad, changing the way consumers view media and jumpstarting the dormant tablet computer segmant
