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A binary electrical/mechanical calculator. It was able to add, subtract, and with control logic able to multiply and divide.
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First computer to run at electronic speed. Proposed by John Mauchly in 1942. Was able to calculate complex problems.
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Intel, Compaq, Microsoft, and IBM introduced the USB 1.0 to develop a basic device-connection protocol. In 2000 the "ThumbDrive" was made by Trek Technology.
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The first computer mouse made by Douglas Engelbart had a wooden shell, circuit board, and two metal wheels that rolled on the surface it was used on. 8 years later Bill English developed the "Ball Mouse", And 8 years after that the "optical mouse" was made.
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The Apollo guidance computer was considered a small computer in 1965 and it was used in the Apollo spacecraft. It was made to reduce the size of the original Apollo spacecraft's computer.
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The ARPANET was created during the Cold War and was the first network that used TCP/IP protocol. It used packet switching and developed into the Internet in 1982.
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The Xerox Alto had a mouse, removable data storage, a visual user interface, and more. It was developed by Xerox as a research system. The Alto also had a mouse to make it faster and easier to use.
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The Wang 2200 had a BASIC interpreter in ROM, so it could be turned on a used in seconds. It also had a Cassette Drive.
The BASIC interpreter was written in microcode.
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Speak and Spell (a talking learning aid) was the first electronic duplication of the human vocal tract on a single chip of silicon.
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Lisa was the first personal computer to have a Graphical User Interface. Apple said that Lisa would make computers easier to use.
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Three bands of the radio spectrum were released by the U.S. Federal Communication Commission to be used for wireless communication. The IEEE and Wi-Fi Alliance were then formed shortly after to develop and regulate wireless technology worldwide.
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The internet was originally created by Tim Berners-Lee (a British Scientist at CERN) to allow scientists to share their work with each other.
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The iPod is a digital music player that can store 1,000 songs on its hard drive. The iPod was the size of a deck of cards.
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A laptop with a virus on the International Space Station was stopped with virus protection software. NASA would not reveal on how the virus got on the laptop.
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The HoloLens is a high-definition holographic interface using a wireless headset.
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