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