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Charles Babbage
First automatic calculator. Babbage is referred to as "father of computing" -
Herman Hollerith
took Jacquard's punch card and applied it. He received his engineer of Mines (EM) degree at 19 years old. -
Z1 Computer
First computer with featres like todays, control unit, seperate memory functions. the computer had a 64- word floating point memory. -
Eniac
Calculate settings used for weapons. weighed over 30 tons -
First Generation Computer
Univac and computers like it. US census and bureau and general electric owned one. -
Univac
first commercially successful electronic digital computer. predicted Eisenhower would defeat Stevenson with 438 electoral votes. -
Second Generation Computers
Bell telephone company invented in NJ. generated smoke, damaging the computer -
Jack Kilby
invented worlds first integrated circuit, circuit market made $219 billion -
Third generation computers
smaller and lighter. able to run different applications at one time. -
BASIC
Begginers All-purpose Symbolic Instruction
Code, made in Dartmouth college -
Fourth Generation computer
uses a microprocessor chip. increased the speed and efficiency of compters -
introduction of the GUI
graphical user interface, interacts with computer easier -
Altair Computer
first personal computer. sold by mail order through advertisements -
Steve Jobs
Apple computers, after the first day of trading the company market value was $1.2 billion. -
Apple II
color monitor, sound, & game paddles, sales increased by 700 %, to $139 million -
WordStar
First word processing app, published by MicroPro international -
Visicalc
see benefit of owning computer, still uns today, it's only 27,520 bytes long -
Bill Gates
wrote OS program for IBM PC, one of the richest men in the world. -
Osborne Computer
portable, 24.5 pound, 5 in screen, company grew to 3,000 employees within the year due to computers -
Pagemaker
First desktop publishing software, gave insttructions for artists -
Mosaic
First browser that could display graphics and texts -
Netscape
web browser software, lost to Microsoft due to price -
Excel
database function to organize your data
