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Charles Babbage
He created the first automated caculator. He was considered the 19th century prophet for computers. -
Herman Hollerith
Applied " punch card concept" to computing with his Hollerith tabulating machine. He wa also an American statitician and inventor, his company would also grow to become what is now IBM. -
Z1 Computer
Mechanical calculator, included modern features such as a control unit as well as memory storage. Designed by Konrad Zuse. -
1st generation computer
early machines that helped humans with calculation. very big. -
Univac
Universal auatomatic computer, first commercially sucesful electronic computer, used magnetic tape to operate. -
steve jobs
founder of microsoft/wrote lots of programs. he is worth 85 billion dollars. wasborn in seattle. -
2nd generation computer
a computer characterized by the use of transistors rather than vacume tubes. -
Jack Kilby
Worlds first intergrated circuit, their was a small chip installed that was capable of containign thousands of of transistors. -
3rd generation computer
characterized by integrated circuts and has logical organization and software which permit the computer to handle many programs at the same time. -
4th generation computer
characterized by increasingly advanced very large scale integrated circuits and increasingly use of a hierarchy of memory, -
Introduction of the GUI
This was a grphical user interface called "GUI", apple was the first company to use this product commercially. -
Altair Computer
The computer cost $498 fully assembled, yet it had no keyboard or monitor. It was also considered to be very un-user friendly. Based on the Intel 8080 CPU. -
Apple II
This computer was much easier to use than the other competitors product, many inividuals used it for their own programming. It was the first mass produced microcomputer. -
Steve Jobs
He was co foundr of the comapny Apple, actually was the one who named the company Apple, because he considered it to be the perfect fruit. -
visicalc
first electronic spreadsheet applicatinon. orifinally relased for the apple 2. sold over 1000000 coppies. -
Osbourne Computer
The first portable computer, it was pe installed with spreadsheet and a form of a word software. Featured a 5 inch display. -
Mosaic
First browser to display graphics. Mosaic was developed at the national center for super computing applications. -
excel
helps make spreadsheets. excel is apart of microsoft office. the industry standard for spreadsheets. -
ENIAC
Electronic numerical intergrator and computer was what the name stood for. The product was used to calculate the settings used for weapons. -
netscape
a web browser evolved form moasic. they were aquired by AOL in 1999. -
pagemaker
first desktop bublisher. written to make as few assumptions about the underlying system as possible.