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Designed the first automatic calculator called the Analytical Engine.
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Was the first to take Jacquard's punchcard concept and apply it to computing with his Hollerith Tabulating Machine.
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a mechanical calculator, first computer to include certain features intergral to today's system
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machine developed to calculate the settings used for weapons
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used vaccum tubes to store data
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used transistors to store data
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used BASIC to write program for the altair. Led to the creation of Microsoft
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first commercially successful electroic digital computer, used to redict the outcome of the Stevenson-Eisenhower presidental race
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invented the first integrated citcuit, a small chip capable of containing thousands of transistors; designed enabled computers to become smaller and lighter. Computers in this early intergrated-circuit generation were considered 3rd generation computers
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used integrated circuit
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Revolutionized the software industry led. Led to the creation of Microsoft
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used microprocessor chip. (still used)
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allowed users to interact with the computer more freely
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no keyboard of monitor lights on front, indicated result of a program
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made a few suggestions to help Wozniak with the first apple computer
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colored monitor sound and game pads
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first word processing application
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first electronic spreadsheet application
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first portable computer, two floppy disk drives
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the first desktop publishing software
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one of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical user interface
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allowed users to view multimedia on the web, causing internet traffic to increase by nearly 350%
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became a predominant player in browser software
