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1950 First Commercially Produced Computer
It was called the ERA 1101 and the first person to buy it was the US Navy. -
First Computer Game
In 1952 Alexander Douglas made a computer version of Tic-Tac-Toe. This is important because of how much more advanced computer games are. -
IBM 701
IBM sold 19 701 computers which put them into the large scale computer market. -
First keyboards
MIT researchers began trying to make direct keyboard inputs to computers. This is important because now the keyboard is a import part of a computer. -
First Tennis Game
William Higinbotham made a tennis game. This is important because a similar game called Pong was the first video game which was basically the same thing.