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ENIAC created by John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert, took three years to build and was sponsored by the military. It had 17,468 vacuum tubes, 6,000 manual switches, covered 1,800 square feet of floor space, weighed 30 tons, consumed 160 kilowatts of power, and performed 5,000 operations per second.
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A large scale that was used fpr digital computer that began at the Servomechanisms Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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the first transistor invented at Bell laboratories and replaced vacuum tubes. Started the second generation of computers.
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semi automatic ground environment
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Jack Kilby created the first intergrated circuit and it permitted computers to be lighter and smaller then they currently were in 1958. It was the size of the point of a pencil and was capable of holding thousands of transistors.
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Doug Engelbart developed the first computer mouse
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first minicomputer was developed
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a real time computerized ticket reservation system for American Airyways.
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the number of transistors that occurred on a microchip would double each year.
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intergrated electronics were found which develps more sophisticated memory chips
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the IBM system/370 replaced their System/360 with a system that only used intergrated circuits.
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the first microprocessor chip called the INTEL 4004. Was developed by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor. It had the capability to hold millions of transistors. It was the central processing unit for the computer.
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more advanced version of the 4004 model
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the first operating sytem for microcomputers was develpoed by Gary Kildall and John Torode.
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MOS technologies announced the development of the 6502 processor.
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: the first laptop was invented by Adam Osborne. It was called the Osborne 1. It had a five inch screen and two five and one fourth inch disk drives. It had basic word processing and a spread sheet program and cost $1,795.
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inteliligent computers, intelligent robots, video cameras, and other new developments were made.
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The First PDA, had several apps, one being notes in which u can write personal messages in your own handwriting. It has the capability to interpret your handwriting. It was 4.5 x 7 inches and one inch thick.
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