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Charles Babbage creates a machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers.
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Herman Hollerith designs a system called the punch card system to calculate the 1880 census
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J.V. Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts or shafts.
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Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations a the the same time
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Two University of Pennsylvania professors build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC).
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Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census Bureau to build the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government applications.
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Grace Hopper makes the first computer language, which is known as COBOL.
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the FORTRAN language is made
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The integrated circuit, known as the computer chip is made
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Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface
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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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Robert Metcalfe develops Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and other hardware.
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The IBM 5100 becomes the first commercially available portable computer.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.
