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comupter history
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First calculating machine
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first mechanical computer
inventor: Charles Babbage
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first programmable computer
inventor:Konrad Zuse
It The Z1 originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936 to 1938 is considered to be the first electrical binary programmable computer.
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first electronic and digital comuter
inventor;John Atanosoff and Charles Berry
It was made to make life easier
Short for Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937 and continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). On October 19, 1973, US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision that the ENIAC patent by Eckert and Mauchly was invalid and named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digit -
first stored computer
INVENTOR: British Inventors
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The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game. -
first pc
inventor: IBM
It was made to make life easier
In 1953 IBM shipped its first electric computer, the 701. -
first transistor computer
inventor: TX-O
It was made to make life easier
The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) and first transistorized computer is demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956. -
first minicomputer
inventor: DEC
It was made to make life easier
In 1960 Digital Equipment Corporation released its first of many PDP computers the PDP-1. -
first workstation
inventor: Xerox
It was made to make life easier
Although never sold the first workstation is considered to be the Xerox Alto, introduced in 1974. The computer was revolutionary for its time and included a fully functional computer, display, and mouse. The computer operated like many computers today utilizing windows, menus and icons as an interface to its operating system. -
first prsonal computer
inventor: Eds Robert
It was made to make life easier
In 1975 Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered to be the Kenback-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights. -
first apple computer
inventor: Steve Wozniak
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first laptop
inventor: Adam Osborne
It was made to make life easier
The first portable computer or laptop is considered to be the Osborne I, a portable computer developed by Adam Osborne that weighed 24 pounds, a 5-inch display, 64 KB of memory, two 5 1/4" floppy drives, and a modem. -
first multimedia computer
inventor: Radio Shack
It was made to make life easier
In 1992 Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX computers. -
Present day computers
inventor: NEXTstatiom
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Future computers
inventor: Isaiah Gregory
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