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Designed first automatic calculator. Charles Babbage brain is on display at a Science Museum.
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First to take Jacquads punch card concept and apply it to computing. Herman's grave is at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington D. C.
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First comp. to include cerain features intergral to todays systerms. Zuse(creator) took money from frat brothers, his parents, and his sister to help pay for project.
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First successful high speed electonic digital comp. Eniac was so big it took up an entire room.
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Made with vacuum tubes. So big the comp. itself could go completely around you.
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Made with transistors but smaller. Smaller than eniac but still took a massive amount of space.
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First commercially successful high speed electronic digital comp. Univac is a trademark of 5 different comps.
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Invented the worlds first inergrated circuit. Was a recipient of the nation's most presigious honors in science and engineering: the National Medal of Science in 1969.
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Made with intergrated circuits. Computers no longer took up massive amounts of space.
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Key language of the PC. Computers were eventually fast enough to respnd quickly in between users.
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Made with Microprocessors. This style computer is still intact even till today.
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Allowed users to interact with the computer more easily. Less confusion for just about everyone who used a comp.
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First Personal Computer. Has an 8-inch floppy disk system.
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Co-Founder of Apple. Helped named the company after an Apple because it was his favorite fruit and he had worked in an orchard.
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One of the first Altair owners and helped developed microsoft with Paul Allen. Richest man alive being at worth of 80+billion.
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Colored, was also stored in read only memory (ROM). Apple pretty much excelled its continders for a time being. Good computer for first gaming.
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Frist personal computer spreasheet program. Turned computing from a hobby to a business tool.
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First word processing application. In 2013 a WordStar clone was in the process of being developed, under the name of WordTsar.
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Birth of Portable Comp. You could take the web with you everywhere you went that had it.
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First desktop Publishing Software. Has recently been discontinued. Operating systerms were Windows Vista and earlier Mac OS 9
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Web browser allowed users to view multimedia on the web. Publicity of the comp. pretty much doubled.
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Web browser Web browser that eventually lost to internet explorer in the first web browser war.