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First Vacuum Tube
William DeForest invents the vacuum tube. This was a major advancement for te ability of computers to have a display. -
First digital Calculator
Howard Aiken and staff at IBM's Endicott Labs complete the Harvard Mark 1, an automatic digital sequence-controlled computer.This opened many doors. The total weight was only 5 tons. -
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Comuter inovation
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Apple 1
Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak design and build the first Apple computers, the Apple 1 -
Apple 2
The Apple II computer is introduced at a trade show -
IBM hires Microsoft
IBM hires Microsoft to develop an operating system for their proposed personal computer. This is the main advancement in personal computers. -
Microsoft Releases Windows
Microsoft finally releases the Windows operating system. The first windows operating system which grew to be the most widely used operating system in the world. Although this system wasnt perfect it is important to know the beginning -
Microsoft releases Windows 95
Microsoft releases Windows 95
7 million copies in the first five weeks
With this major windows upgrade this really laaunched the use of personal computers and home use of the internet.This is also was when the iconic start button was introduced. -
First Apple Ipod Introduced
Changed the way we listen to music. Selling all songs for just 99 cents. -
First Iphone
The first smartphone that truely gave people the power to do mobile computing on the go. People now had more computing power in there hands than the original computers. -
Ipad 2
Apple releases the ipad 2, the most advanced tablet ever created. Giving people the power of a full computer for an afordable price, becoming the best selling tablet ever.
