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History of Computers
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History of Computers
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John Napier
Invented a set of rods that could be used to perform complex calculations. -
Blaise Pascal
His machines could add numbers up to 8 didgets -
Joseph-maire Jaquard
Developed a weaving loom -
Charles Babbage
The first machine that actually approximated the idea of the compluter -
Herman Hollerith
Punched card calculator -
Willam S. Burroughs
Machanical Calculators -
Lee de forest
Electronic tube -
Howard H. Aiken
First programmed controlled calculator -
Gary Kildall
Wrote an operating system for a chip called CP/M -
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
Completed a Work Circuit board for a new microcomputer -
William B. Shockley, Walter H. Brattain, and John Bardeen
created the transitor