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500 BCE
Abacus
It was invented by the Chinese 5000 years ago. It was a very simple model made with beads and wood. It helped by doing the calculation with the beads. -
270 BCE
Antikythera mechanism
Description: This piece of technology was an invention of the Greeks that was used for many things. For example charge the movement of sun, moon and different planets. -
Pascaline
This machine was created by a French man and could only add and subtract. It was originally created as a tax collector. -
Schickard calculator
It is a simple four function calculator that can add, subtract multiply and divide. -
Babbage’s Difference Engine
Was more than a simple calculator. This machine was able to solve complex calculations. -
Z3 (Konrad Zuse)
World's first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine that was able to perform addition of conditional branching. -
ABC (Atanassof-Berry Computer)
The first electronic computer. -
ENIAC
This machine was made to run calculations. It was the first large-scale computer to run at electronic speed without being slowed by any mechanical parts. -
Mark I
This machine was created by a professor at harvard. It was a calculator of the size of a room that could complete very difficult calculations. After the Harvard professor released this computer, it was used but the navy and military. -
EDVAC
EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic computers. It is a “cousin” of ENIAC and their differences is that EDVAC is binary rather than decimal, and has a stored-program computer. -
IBM System 360
Designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small to large, both commercial and scientific. -
IBM PC
The original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. -
Atari Pong
The first commercially successful video game is based on a simple two-dimensional graphical representation of a tennis-like game. -
MITS Altair 8800
It a micro computer and is considered to be the first "personal computer". -
Apple MacIntosh
It was created by steve jobs and was the start of many computers. It had a mouse and keyboard. -
Nokia 9000i Communicator
This was the first smartphone Nokia created and was immediately popular. It was very heavy and large -
Apple iPad (1st generation)
A tablet computer designed and marketed by Apple Inc. as the first in the iPad line. -
IBM Watson
The IBM Watson computer is a question answering computer system
