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The transistor was invented by Bell Telephone Company. It wasn't a computer in itself but it was a vital computer component.
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These machines had the following characteristics:
-They used vacuum tubes to process information.
- They used punched cards to enter data and programs.
-They used magnetic cilynders to store information and internal instrucctions.
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IBM International Business Machines came out with their first computer machine.
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The first bank computers were invented. They used MICR, or magnetic ink character recognition, to read checks.
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jack kilby and Robert Noyce invented the integrated circuit, better known as the computer chip.
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Characteristics of this generation:
They used transistors to process information.
The transistors were faster, smaller and more reliable than vacuum tubes.
200 transistors could be accommodated in the same amount of space as a vacuum tube.
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The first internet was called ARPANET. The original internet wasn't used very widely because not many people had access to it.
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Spacewar games invented the first computer video games.
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The history of WiFi is long and interesting. In 1971, ALOHAnet connected the Hawaiian Islands with a UHF wireless packet network. ALOHAnet and the ALOHA protocol were early forerunners to Ethernet, and later the IEEE 802.11 protocols, respectively.
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Bill Gates worked with Paul Allen to develop BASIC for the Altair 8800.
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IBM and Apple were just a couple of the brands that put out the first personal computers.
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