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This was basically the first computer making company. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator. Walt Disney order six of these machines for a movie in 1940.
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This was an early computer built by a German engineer. it used 2,300 relays and had a bit word length of 22. It was destroyed when Belin was bombed in 1943.
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The ENIAC, built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert was 1,000 times the speed of its contemporaries. It had a speed of 5,000 operations a second.
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This tape was able to store 2 million digits per tape, the best of its time. Created by IBM, The Model 726 was sold with one of their computers. It was rented for $850 per month.
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This computer was built by DEC and sold for $120,000. It made some MIT students very interested. They ended up designing the first videogame, SpaceWar! This was used as a standard demo for the computers.
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DEC successfully designs a microcomputer that is a good buy for people. It is faster, smaller, and more afordable than other computers of the time.
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The department of defense created nodes on the ARPANET allowing their computers to communicate with each other. This was used by the UCLA, The University of Utah, and SRI international
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HP released a revolutionary computer that was small and described as, "A fast, extremely accurate slide-rule." This was basically the first calculator.
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The Apple II was relaesed and became a huge success. It had a cassette tape with the computer game, "Breakout."
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Tim Berners-Lee developed the internet revolutionizing computers even further. This helped make computers a houshold item.
