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first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers.
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During World War II, the U.S. Navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about building a flight simulator to train bomber crews.
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In February, the public got its first glimpse of the ENIAC.
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IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed scientific data in public.
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Maurice Wilkes assembled the EDSAC, the first practical stored-program computer, at Cambridge University.
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MIT´s Whirlwind debuted on Edward R. Murrow´s "See It Now" television series.
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MIT researchers built the TX-0, the first general-purpose, programmable computer built with transistors.
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SAGE linked hundreds of radar stations in the United States and Canada.
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IBM´s 7000 series mainframes were the company´s first transistorized computers.
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The LINC offered the first real laboratory data processing.
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Data General Corp. introduced the Nova, with 32 kilobytes of memory, for $8,000.
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The Kenbak-1 is the first personal computer.
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Alto — the first work station with a built-in mouse for input.
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The Commodore PET came fully assembled and was straightforward to operate, with either 4 or 8 kilobytes of memory.
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The Cray XMP,almost doubled the operating speed of competing machines with a parallel processing system.
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FIrst home computer with a graphical user interface
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Audio and video capabilities heighgtened on personal computer
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Microsoft windows is invented and starts its rivalry with apple
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Netscape is formed and Starts the internet boom
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Yahoo is formed and now resides as a popular search engine
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