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The model k relay was built by George Stibitz on his kitchen table
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Bell Telephone Laboratories produced the CNC, Complex Number Calculator, from Scientist George Stibitz design
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Konrad Zuze completed the Z3, an early computer, was built in total isolation.The Z3 was used for aerodynamic calculations but was destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin in late 1943.
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A machine that decrypted Nazi ENIGMA-based military comm. during WWII
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The ABC, or Atanasoff-Berry Computer, was the first Electronic computer
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The US Navy went to MIT during WWII to create a flight simulator for navy pilots
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Conceived by Howard Aiken, a Harvard physics professor, and designed and built by IBM. The Harvard Mark 1 is a giant room sized calculator with 3,500 relays
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Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tooth hill create the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, it was also called the Manchester Baby,ran the first program, consisting of seventeen instructions and written by Kilburn, ran on June 21st, 1948.
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The first practical stored-program computer to provide a regular computing service. The EDSAC was built at Cambridge University.
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At MIT, researchers begin experimenting with direct keyboard input to computers
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Bill Hewlett Challenged his engineers in 1971,to fit all of the features of their desktop calculator into a small enough device to fit in the palm or your hand
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This was one of the earliest personal computers
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The Wang 2200 used a built-in CRT, cassette tape for storage, and ran the programming language BASIC.
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Designed by California native Steve Wozniak, and marketed by his friend Steve Jobs, the Apple-1 is a single-board computer for hobbyists
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Apple introduces the Macintosh with a television commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl.The Macintosh was the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphical user interface and was based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor.
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Apple enters the handheld computer market with the Newton.The Newton featured many of the features that would define handheld computers in the following decades.
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Japan's SoftBank introduces the first camera phone, the J-Phone J-SH04; a Sharp-manufactured digital phone with integrated camera
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Apple launches the iPhone a combination of web browser, music player and cell phone - which could download new functionality in the form of apps from the online Apple store.
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Incorporating a version of Apple's iOS operating system, as well as sensors for environmental and health monitoring, the apple watch can also sync to your iphone and Mac.
