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WikipediaIn the late 1880s an American Herman Hollerith invented data storage on a medium that could then be read by a machine. Hollerith came to use punched cards after observing how railroad conductors, with there punch tickets.
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WikipediaThe ENIAC was the first digital computer, and it cost almost $500,000. The machine was the size of a small gym and contained over 17,000 vacum tubes
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Computer History A silicon-based junction transistor, perfected by Gordon Teal of Texas Instruments Inc., brought the price of this component down to $2.50.
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Wikipedia In 1958 a computer game called Tennis for Two was created by Willy Higginbotham which was a tennis game between two players who could both play at the same time using controls and was displayed on an oscilloscope.
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Wikipedia In June 1963, Friden introduced the four function EC-130. it was on a 5 inch Cathode Ray Tube
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Computer historyCDC´s 6600 supercomputer was designed by Seymour Cray. It performed up to 3 million instructions per second.
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Computer historyThe first Colossus is operational at Bletchley Park. Designed by British engineer Tommy Flowers, the Colossus was designed to break the complex Lorenz ciphers used by the Nazis during WWII.
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Computer HistoryThe TV Typewriter, designed by Don Lancaster, provided the first display of alphanumeric information. It used $120 in equipment.
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Computer HistoryResearchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center designed the Alto — the first work station with a built-in mouse for input.
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Computer History Commodore introduces the Commodore 64. It sold for $595, and came with 64KB of RAM and featured impressive graphics.
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Computer historyMagnetic tape allows for inexpensive mass storage of information. later they figured out a 3480 cartridge tape system sought to replace the traditional reels of magnetic tape
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Computer HistoryVideo Toaster is introduced by NewTek. The Video Toaster was a video editing and production system.
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Computer History Yahoo is founded by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo,Yahoo originally relied on two machines.
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Computer hope Microsoft Bill Gates relinquishes his title as CEO to Microsoft President Steve Ballmer on January 13, 2000. he would later become the total owner.
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WikipediaApple releases the origianal IPad, and made millions of sales. They also released the IPhone 4 that same year.
