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J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly begin making the ENIAC. The first electronic numerican integrator and computer. Considered first computer by few.
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The Colossus,a programmable digital machine that was considered the first computer by some was created.
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The relay-based Harvard-IBM MARK I, was created by a group of people led by Howard Aiken. It was a huge calculating machine.
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Andrew Booth created magnetic drum memory which increased the computer memory capacity.
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The first commercial computer, called the "First Ferranti MARK I, was created and used in Manchester University.
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MIT was planning and creating ideas for the first input keyboard.
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BASIC, the first programming language, was created by Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny
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PDP-8, the first mini-computer, was introduced by Digital Equipment Corp.
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UNIX operating system was created by AT&T Bell Laboratories programmers Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
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IBM company created tje first floppy disk
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Xerox Palo Alto Research Center designed the Alto which was the first workstation computer to have a built in input mouse
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The Apple I was the first single-board computer and was designed by Steve Woninak.
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The Apple II was create wih more features than ever. Printed circuit motherboard, switching power supply, keyboard, case assembly, manual, game paddles, A/C powercord, and cassette tape with the computer game "Breakout.
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The 5 1/4 floppy disk became the most common
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The Motorola 68000 microprocessor became the commonly used processor for workstations
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Microsoft licenses UNIX operating system from Bell Laboratories and introduces its XENIX adaptation.
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VIC-20 became the first "home" computer
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Osborne 1 became the first portable computer.
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Lotus 1-2-3 replaces VisiCalc as the spreadsheet software of choice for microcomputers.
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Apple creates Macintosh
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Texas Instruments creates the first AI microprocessor chip.
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Java was released to the world. Created by Sun Microsystems.
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PHP, another programming language was created in 1996 by Rasmus Lerdorf.
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Today we have many varieties of computers and ways to program. We have many companies like Acer, Dell, HP, Apple that have made computers today really hi-tech. When it comes to programming, we use Java, C++, and C/