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computer history Hewlett-Packard is Founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, they both created the first hp 200 which rapidly became pupular
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computer historyKonrad Zuse began work on Plankalkul (Plan Calculus), the first algorithmic programming language, and later he ctreated the first binary computer during world war ll
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computer historyClaude Shannon´s "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" showed engineers how to code data so they could how right was their job after that claude shannon discovered one of the most important program in history of computers
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computer historyGrace Hopper completes the A-0 Compiler. In 1952, and this alllowed people to use words in english instead of numbers
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computer historyJohn Backus completed speedcoding for IBM´s 701 computer. and this needed more time because it was a different kind of coding
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computer historyHerbert Simon and Allen Newell unveiled Logic Theorist they replaced rules of reasoning for symbols which made things easier
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computer historyAt MIT, researchers began experimentation on direct keyboard input on computers, and they discovered one that is very similar to the one that we use today
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computer historycomputer history The first operatifor the IBM 704 reflected the cooperation of Bob Patrick of General Motors Research and Owen Mock of North American Aviation. Called the GM-NAA I/O System, it was more efficient
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computer historyA new language, FORTRAN (short for FORmula TRANslator), was created
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computer history<a Sperry Rand released a commercial compiler for its UNIVAC. Developed by Grace Hopper as a refinement of her earlier innovation, the the new versionj was called math- matic
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computer historyERMA, the Electronic Recording Method created a computer-readable font. A special scanner read account numbers preprinted on checks in magnetic ink.
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computer historyA team drawn from several computer manufacturers and the Pentagon developed COBOL, Common Business Oriented Language. Designed for business they hoped it runned in any normal computers , they just made a few modifications
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computer historyQuicksort is developed. Working for the British computer company Elliott Brothers, C. A. R. Hoare developed it becomed very famous
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computer historyLISP is made , the first computer lenguage
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computer hiastoryPublished in 1962, Kenneth Iverson’s book A Programming Language detailed a form of mathematical notation that he had developed in the late 1950s while an assistant professor at Harvard University. IBM hired Iverson and it was there that APL evolved into a practical programming language.
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computer historyMIT students Slug Russell, Shag Graetz, and Alan Kotok wrote SpaceWar!, considered the first interactive computer game. First played at MIT on DEC´s PDP-1, the large-scope display featured interactive, shoot´em-up graphics that inspired future video games. Dueling players fired at each other´s spaceships and used early versions of joysticks to manipulate away from the central gravitational force of a sun as well as from the enemy ship.
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computer historyIvan Sutherland published Sketchpad, an interactive, real time computer drawing system, as his MIT doctoral thesis. Using a light pen and Sketchpad, a designer could draw and manipulate geometric figures on the screen.
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computer historyASCII — American Standard Code for Information Interchange — permitted machines from different manufacturers to exchange data. ASCII consists of 128 unique strings of ones and zeros. Each sequence represents a letter of the English alphabet, an Arabic numeral, an assortment of punctuation marks and symbols, or a function such as a carriage return.
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computer historyThomas Kurtz and John Kemeny created BASIC, an easy-to-learn programming language, for their students at Dartmouth College.
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computer historythe arpenet was the firs nerwork ever created by the U.S. department of defense. the TCP/P protocol was created which is still used in today`s computer networks
