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this was the earliest calculating device, it was a complicated set of gears that operated closely to a clock
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invented by Gottfried Leibniz
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Charles Babbage began working on the difference engine
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Performed variety of calculations by following sets of instructions, or programs stored on punched cards
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this machine was created by Herman Hollerith
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Marcian Hoff built first microprocessor
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Lee Byung-Chul founded Samsung, the phone company
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first ones started getting built by John Atanasoff
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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
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John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckea began working on the eletrical numerical integration and calculator
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used mechanical telephone relay switches to store information and accepted data on punched cards
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William Shoukley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brittain created the first transistor, semi-conductor device that could replace a vacuum tube
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the first UNIVAC was sold to the U.S Census Bureau
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first compiler built ; translated into assembly language
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high level programming language with intuitive commands such as "READ" or "WRITE"
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IBM introduced the first medium sized computer
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John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed BASIC
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Herman Hollerith started this company with success of his own machine
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high level programming language that supports real-time applications
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apple is an american multinational technology company
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ARPANET adopted TCP\IP which lead to the development of "network of network"
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NCR Corporation partnered with aT&T invented WIFI
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the first macbook , an Apple made laptop, of many was released
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I phone 2g was released by apple
