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Z1 Computer
This was the first freely programmable computer. Konrad Zuse invented it and he got the award " inventor of the modern computer ". -
ABC Computer
The first electronical-digital computer was built at Iowa State by professor John Atanasoff and graduate Clifford Berry. In 1939 they built a prototype of this computer. -
ENIAC 1 Computer
The ENIAC weighed 30 tons and took up 1800 square feet. Instead of using switches they used vaccuum tubes which made it run way faster. -
UNIVAC Computer
In 1948 the actually design and contract was finalized. The final cost for the UNIVAC was close to one-million dollars. -
ERMA and MICR
This computer was originally for the bank of America and did a lot of stuff with numbers. It was first demonstrated in 1955 but made its first bank appearance in 1956. -
The Integrated Circuit
To inventors invented almost the exact same chip at nearly the same time and they didnt even know about each other. After these the computers all started using chips instead of individual transistors. -
First Computer Game Invented
Steve Russel invented the first computer game and it took over 200 man hours. DEC game him a computer hoping he would improve the product, they never thought he would invent a game/ -
ARPAnet
This was the first internet, it helped protect information flow between military installations. -
"Floppy Disk"
It was nicknamed floppy because it was very flexible and really easy to transport information from computer to computer. It had a recording tape much like the cassete tape that would record the information. -
WordStar Software
In 1982 the 3.0 version of the DOS was released. WordStar was the most popular proccesing device in the world within just three years. -
Apple Lisa Computer
Its code name was Lisa after one of the designers daughters. This was the first personal computer to use GUI. To develop the Lisa it cost apple $50 million. -
Microsoft Windows
They first introduced this on November 10, 1983 and they promised it would be on the shelf by April of 1984. IBM did not give Microsoft a lot of encouragement while working on this project. -
Controlling your house by computer
Soon you'll be able to control your whole house by computers! Right now they have remotes to turn on your shower in the morning to warm it up for you. They also have little mini computers on fridges that are just like ipads. -
Computers in the Future
Computers are suppose to change so much more over the years making them run way more efficiently. They are going to become way more easier to control and also the sensors are going to become way better. -
Moore's Law
In 1965 Moore made an observation that showed that the numbers of trasistors you could cram into a silicon chip would double every year or so. This means that in 100 years computers would be 1,125,899,906,842,624 times powerful then they are.
