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Difference Engine
The difference machine was a calculator, but they cannot calculate general arithmetical problems. It was made by Charles Babbage, and it was a design for the future mechanical computers.
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Colossus Machine
The Colossus was used to encrypt the German messages, and was the first large scale computer ever. It was made by Tommy Flowers, and he is declared as the ‘father’ of computers.
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Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC)
The computer was actually a first practical stored-program computer that laid out foundations for general computing and programming. It was made in Cambridge University, and was assembled by Maurice Wilkes
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Magnetic Core Memory
Core memories were installed into computers by a man named Jay Forrester. The system made the computer faster and more reliable. This was a huge development to the computer industry, until semiconductors were made.
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TX-0
The TX-0 was the first general purpose, programmable computer build with transistors. The computer hosted some early imaginative tests of programming. It was made by MIT researchers.
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LINC (Laboratory Instrumentation Computer)
The computer offered the first real time laboratory data processing. It was designed by Wesley Clark at Lincoln Laboratories at Digital Equipment Corps.
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Nova Mini Computer
The minicomputer had 32 kilobytes of memory, and it costed $8,000.
The simple architecture inspired Steve Woznaik and Steve Jobs create the Apple I board 8 years later.
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Motorola
It was the first handheld cell phone, demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper.
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Internet
The internet is now all across the world. It is used to offer and receive effective information and also communicate globally. It is in every single computer, whether it is in Google Chrome, Torch, Internet Explorer, or Mpzilla Firefox.
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Apple Macintosh
It was created by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. It was designed for anyone to use them, and it was also small and customised with a pretty case. Soon they were in schools, offices, and homes and all across the world.
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