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Pascaline
this was the earliest calculating device, it was a complicated set of gears that operated closely to a clock -
Stepped Reckoner
invented by Gottfried Leibniz -
Diffrence Engine
Charles Babbage began working on the difference engine -
Analytical Engine
Performed variety of calculations by following sets of instructions, or programs stored on punched cards -
Tabulating Machine
this machine was created by Herman Hollerith -
Microprocessor
Marcian Hoff built first microprocessor -
Samsung
Lee Byung-Chul founded Samsung, the phone company -
Electronic Computers
first ones started getting built by John Atanasoff -
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Atanasoff - Berry Computer
used binary number system of 1's and 0's that's still used in computers today; contains hundreds of vacuum tubes and stores numbers by electronically burning holes in sheets of paper. the output of calculations was displayed on an odometer type of device -
ENIAC
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckea began working on the eletrical numerical integration and calculator -
Mark 1
used mechanical telephone relay switches to store information and accepted data on punched cards -
Transistor
William Shoukley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brittain created the first transistor, semi-conductor device that could replace a vacuum tube -
Universal Automatic Computer
the first UNIVAC was sold to the U.S Census Bureau -
A-0
first compiler built ; translated into assembly language -
Fortran
high level programming language with intuitive commands such as "READ" or "WRITE" -
Model 650
IBM introduced the first medium sized computer -
BASIC
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed BASIC -
Tabulating Machine Company
Herman Hollerith started this company with success of his own machine -
Ada
high level programming language that supports real-time applications -
Apple
apple is an american multinational technology company -
Internet
ARPANET adopted TCP\IP which lead to the development of "network of network" -
WIFI
NCR Corporation partnered with aT&T invented WIFI -
Google
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Macbook
the first macbook , an Apple made laptop, of many was released -
I phone
I phone 2g was released by apple
