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When was the word "computer" first used?
The word computer was first used in 1613 in the book The Yong Mans Gleanings by Richard Braithwaite and originally described a human who performed calculations or computations. -
First mechanical computer or automatic computing engine concept
In 1822, Charles Babbage began developing the first automatic computing machine to approximate polynomials. -
The first computer
The first computer was invented in 1837 by Charles Babbage. -
The first machine to record and store information.
In 1890, Herman Hollerith developed a method for machines to record and store information on punch cards for the US census. -
First programmable computer
The Z1 was created by German Konrad zuse between 1936 and 1983. -
First computer with artificial intelligence.
Birth of artificial intelligence (1941-56) The IBM 702: a computer used by the first generation of AI researchers. The earliest research into thinking machines was inspired by a confluence of ideas that became prevalent in the late 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. -
The first digital computer.
The Atanasoff-berry computer was developed by John Vincent Atanasoff in in 1937 to 1942 -
The first electric programmable computer
The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer, developed by Tommy Flowers, and was made in December 1943. -
The first stored program computer
The SSEM was the first computer to ellectronically store and execute a program. It was designed and built by Fredrick Williams in 1948. -
The first computer company
The first computer company was Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. -
IBM's first computer
IBM introduced the 701 in 1953. -
The first computer with RAM
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) introduced the Whirlwind machine on March 8, 1955, a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM (Random-Access Memory) and real-time graphics. -
The first transistor computer
The TX-0 was the first transistorized computer to be demonstrated at the Massachusetts institute of technology in 1956. -
The first desktop and mass-market computer
In 1964, the first desktop computer, the Programma 101 It was invented by Pier Giorgio Perotto and manufactured by Olivetti. About 44,000 each with a price tag of $3,200. -
The first laptop or portable computer
The IBM 5100 was the first portable computer, released in September 1975. The computer weighed 55-pounds and had a five-inch CRT. The first truly portable computer was the Osborne I, The IBM 5100 was the first portable computer, released in 1981 and developed by Adam Osborne. -
The first Apple computer
initially sold for $666.66. The computer kit was developed by Steve Wozniak in 1976. -
The first IBM personal computer
IBM introduced its first personal computer, the IBM PC, in 1981. The computer was code-named Acorn. It featured an 8088 processor and 16 KB of memory, which was expandable to 256 and used MS-DOS. -
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. In 1983, it became the first commercially available handheld cellular mobile phone. The first handheld cellular mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing 2 kilograms (4.4 lb). -
The first multimedia computer
In 1992, Tandy Radio Shack released the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX, among the first computers to feature the MPC standard. -
Apple Launches iPad
January 27, 2010 Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more.