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History of Computers
Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer -
Brief of History
The next big step for computers arrived in the 1830's when Charles Babbage decided to build a machine to help him complete and print mathematical tables. Babbage was a mathematician who taught at Cambridge University in England. He began planning his calculating machine calling it the Analytical Engine. The idea for this machine was amazingly like the computer we know today. It was to read a program from punched cards, figure and store the answers to different problems, and print the answer on p -
History of Computers
Hewlett-Packard is founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. First product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, became popular piece of test equipment for engineers. -
History of Computers
The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) is completed -
History of Computers
Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer. The Z3 was an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere -
History Of Computers
Harvard Mark-1 is completed. Conceived by Harvard professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark-1 was a room-sized, relay-based calculator -
History
Computers have been around for quite a few years. Some of your parents were probably around in 1951 when the first computer was bought by a business firm. Computers have changed so rapidly many people can not keep up with changes. -
History of Computers
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip -
History of Computers
Hewlett-Packard entered the general purpose computer business with its HP-2115 for computation, offering a computational power formerly found only in much larger computers. It supported a wide variety of languages, among them BASIC, ALGOL, and FORTRAN -
History of Computers
The first e-mail is sent. Ray Tomlinson of the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman sent the first e-mail when he was supposed to be working on a different project. Tomlinson, who is credited with being the one to decide on the “@” sign for use in e-mail, sent his message over a military network called ARPANET. -
History of Computers
Apple computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs -
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Adam Osborne completed the first portable computer, the Osborne I, which weighed 24 pounds and cost $1,795. The price made the machine especially attractive. -
History of Computers
Video Toaster is introduced by NewTek. The Video Toaster was a video editing and production system for the Amiga line of computers included custom hardware and special software. -
History of Computer
Java is introduced
Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos -
History of Computers
Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998