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Designed the first automatic calculator, called the Analytical Engine
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Was the first to take Jacquard's punch card concept and aplly it to computing with his Hollerith Tabulating Machine, which automatically read data punched onto small punch cards
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Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.
A US government sponsored machine developed to calculate the settings used for weapons.
Thought of as the first successful high speed electronic digital computer, although it was big and clumsy. -
Last to use vacuum tubes to store data
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Universal Automatic Computer.
First commercially successful electronic digital computer.
Gained notoriety when as a publicity stunt it was used to predict the outcome of the Stevenson-Eisenhower presidential race, and was correct in its prediction.
Considered first-generation computers and amoung the last to use vacuum tubes to store data. -
Used transistors
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Integrated Circut
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Invented the worlds first integrated circut, a small chip capable of containing thousands of transistors
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Beginners All-Purpose Sybolic Instruction Code
A programming language easily understood.
The key language of PC -
Used BASIC to write a program for Altair, and lated created the software company Microsoft
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Used microprocessor chips
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Graphical User Interface
Allowed users to interact with the computer more easily.
(the Lisa was the first computer to introduce GUI to the market) -
First Personal Computer
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Co-Created the Apple Computer Company.
Previously worked for atari -
Color Monitor, Sound, and Game Panels
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First word processing application
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First electronic spreadsheet application
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First Portable Computer
Weighed 24.5 ponuds
(Osbourne later closed, and design bought by Compaq in 1983) -
The first desktop publishing software
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One of the first spreadsheets to use graphical user interface
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Web browser thatallowed users to view multimedia on the web.
Caused internet traffic to increase by nearly 350% -
Browser which soon became prodominate in browser software
