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This device was used for testing audio for engineers. Now oscillating programs and devices are heavily used in music. Hewlett-Packard were later the creators of HP computers. (Computer History Museum)
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Created by George Stibitz and used by Bell Telephone Laboratories, the CNC machine was one of the first calculators. It was showcased at a American Mathematical Society meeting in 1940 and shocked the group by the machine. This is considered to be one of the first demonstrations of remote access computing(Coumputer History Museum)
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Wesley Clark created the LINC to process laboratory data in real time for the first time. Digital Equipment Corp. later commercialized it as the LINC-8. (Computer History Museum)
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the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic user interface, with a single $1.5 million commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl. Based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, the Macintosh included many of the Lisa´s features at a much more affordable price: $2,500(Computer History Museum)
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The NeXT failed as a product but was advanced at the time. It was the first personal computer to incorporate a drive for an optical storage disk, a built-in digital signal processor that allowed voice recognition, and object-oriented languages to simplify programming. The NeXT offered Motorola 68030 microprocessors, 8 megabytes of RAM, and a 256-megabyte read/write optical disk storage(Computer History Museum)
