Major Events and People in the History of Computers

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  • Charles Babbage

    designed the first automatic calulator

  • Herman Hollerith

    was the first to take Jacquard's punchcard concept

  • Z1 computer

    thought to be the first computer to include certain features integral to today's system

  • Eniac

    another U.S. government-sponsered machine developed to calabrate the settings used for weapons

  • Univac

    the first commercially successful electronic digital computer

  • 1st generation computers

    were the last to use vacuum tubes to store data

  • 2nd generation computers

    transistors were limited as to how small they could by made

  • Jack Kilby

    invented the world's first integrated circuit

  • 3rd generation computers

    computers in the early integrated-circuit generation

  • BASIC

    Beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code revolutionized the software industry

  • 4th generation computers

    computers that use the microprocesses

  • Introduction of the GUI

    allowed users to interact with the computer more easily

  • Altair computer

    Marked the start of the personal computer boom.

  • Bill Gates

    was among the first Altair owners

  • Steve Jobs

    he and Woznaiak's formed the apple computer company

  • Apple II

    included a color monitor, sound, and game paddles

  • Wordstar

    first word processing application

  • Visicalc

    first electronic spreadsheet application

  • Osborne computer

    First portable computer

  • Pagemaker

    the first desktop publishing software

  • Excel

    one of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical user interface

  • Mosaic

    could display graphics as well as texts

  • Netscape

    became a predominant player in browser software