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Charles Babbage crated the first steam driven calculating machine.
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Herman Hollerith created a punch card calculating machine.
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J.V. Atanasoff creates a computer with no gears, cams, belts or shafts
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Atanasoff and his graduate student built a computer that answer 29 equations which was the first computer to store information in its main memory.
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To univercity of pencilvaina create a electronic numerical lndicater and calculater
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Two professers leave pencilvainia univercities refusing to build UNIVAC.
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Grace Hopper developes the first computer language.
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The FORTRAN language was made.
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Jack Kible and Robert Noyce built a computer chip.
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Douglas Engelbart built a prototype computer with a mouse and graphics user interface(GUI).
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The newly formed Intel unveils the Intel 1103, the first Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip.
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Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the “floppy disk,” allowing data to be shared among computers.
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1973: Robert Metcalfe, a member of the research staff for Xerox, develops Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and other hardware.
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1974-1977: A number of personal computers hit the market, including Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair, IBM 5100, RadioShack’s TRS-80—affectionately known as the “Trash 80,” and the Commodore PET.
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Radio Shack's initial production run of the TRS-80 was just 3,000. It sold like crazy. For the first time, non-geeks could write programs and make a computer do what they wished.
