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Charles Babbage (Father of Computing)
Designed first automatic calculator. Charles Babbage brain is on display at a Science Museum. -
Herman Hollerith
First to take Jacquads punch card concept and apply it to computing. Herman's grave is at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington D. C. -
Z1 Computer
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. -
Eniac
First successful high speed electonic digital comp. Eniac was so big it took up an entire room. -
1st Gen. Comp.
Made with vacuum tubes. So big the comp. itself could go completely around you. -
2nd Gen. Comp.
Made with transistors but smaller. Smaller than eniac but still took a massive amount of space. -
Univac
First commercially successful high speed electronic digital comp. Univac is a trademark of 5 different comps. -
Jack Kilby
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. -
3rd Gen. Comp.
Made with intergrated circuits. Computers no longer took up massive amounts of space. -
BASIC
Key language of the PC. Computers were eventually fast enough to respnd quickly in between users. -
4th Gen. Comp. (71 - today)
Made with Microprocessors. This style computer is still intact even till today. -
Introduction of the GUI
Allowed users to interact with the computer more easily. Less confusion for just about everyone who used a comp. -
Altair Computer
First Personal Computer. Has an 8-inch floppy disk system. -
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder of Apple. Helped named the company after an Apple because it was his favorite fruit and he had worked in an orchard. -
Bill Gates
One of the first Altair owners and helped developed microsoft with Paul Allen. Richest man alive being at worth of 80+billion. -
Apple 2
Colored, was also stored in read only memory (ROM). Apple pretty much excelled its continders for a time being. Good computer for first gaming. -
Visicalc
Frist personal computer spreasheet program. Turned computing from a hobby to a business tool. -
WordStar
First word processing application. In 2013 a WordStar clone was in the process of being developed, under the name of WordTsar. -
Osbourne Compuer
Birth of Portable Comp. You could take the web with you everywhere you went that had it. -
PageMaker
First desktop Publishing Software. Has recently been discontinued. Operating systerms were Windows Vista and earlier Mac OS 9 -
Mosaic
Web browser allowed users to view multimedia on the web. Publicity of the comp. pretty much doubled. -
Netscape
Web browser Web browser that eventually lost to internet explorer in the first web browser war.
