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designed the automatic calcuator. the invention gave him the title of " father of computing".
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first to use punch card concept to apply it to computing. his machine got so successful that he left the census bureau in 1896.
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a mechanical calculator. Thought to be the first computer to include certain features to today's system.
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used vacuum tubes to store data
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First successful high-speed electonic digital computer. used nearly 18,0000 vacuum tubes and filled 1,800 sq. ft of space.
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used transistors to store data
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First commerically successful electronic digital computer. Operated on magnetic tape setting it apart from competitors, which ran on punch cards.
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used integrated circuits.
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Invented the world's first integrated circuit. Was working at Texas Instruments when he invented the world's first integrated circuit.
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was a language that beginning programming students could learn. Bill Gates and Paul Allen use BASIC for writing program for Alatir
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used mircoprocesser chips.
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File management system with directories and folders. The Alto was the first computer to use GUI.
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Was the first personal computer. It was primitive by today's standards: no keyboards, no monitor, and completely not user friendly.
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Formed the apple computer company. He was a college dropout.
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It was the first computer to add read only memory for a operating system. Apple II was 1,300 dollars at the time ( about 5,011 in today's dollars).
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First word processing application.
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First electronic spreadsheet application.
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Cofounder of Microsoft. Gates wrote a OS program for IBM PCs
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It was the portable computer. Osborne solded 10,000 per month in the first year.
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The first desktop publishing software.
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One of the first spreadsheet to use a graphical user interface.
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This browser allowed users to view multimedia on the web. Increased Internet traffic by 350%.
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Became one of the predomiant player in web browser software. In 1998, annouced that they won't charge for the product anymore and made the codes available for the public.
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