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Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania build the first all-electronic computer, the ENIAC. -
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Americans William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen invent the transistor. -
The intergrated circuit is perfected by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, also Americans.
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Intel creates the first DRAM (dynamic random access meory) chip.
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Intel introduces the 4004 microprocessor. The ARPANET, which is the Internet, is established.
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Intel introduces the 8008 mircoprocessor. It contains 3,500 transistors and can execute 60,000 instructiosn per second.
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Bill Gate and Paul Allen form Micro-soft, which today is known as Microsoft.
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The first Apple computer is built by Steve Wozaniak and Steve Jobs.
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Intel tnroduces the 29,000 transistor 8088 mircoprcessor, which can carry out 750,000 instructions per second.
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IBM produces its first personal computer based on the Intel 8088 micrsoprcessor. The PC has 16 kilobytes or memory and costs $3,000.
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TIME magazine chooses the computer as its Machine of the Year.
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The INtel386 processor has 275,000 transistors, runs at 16 megahertz, and can access 4 gigabytes of memory.
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The Intel486 processor uses 1.2 million transistors to carry out 20 million instructions per second.
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The Intel Pentiua, processor, with over 3.1 million transistors, can execute 100 million instructions per second.
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Intel introduces the Pantium II processor with 7.5 million transistors.
