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Computers before Charles Babbage
before Charles Babbage invented his first computer, computers were people who did calculations -
Charles Babbage creates the first computer
He created the Analytical Engine, it would be used to solve calculations given to it. -
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace would design the first programmable computing machine and in the 1840's she would write the first computer program -
Alan Turing designs and helps with the invention of the Bombe
The Bombe was an electro-mechanical device, that would break the enigma coded messages during the second world war, this would let people know about the enemies operations -
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The ENIAC Programmers
the ENIAC Programmers would build the first large scale computer, this would take multiple years to make -
Mauchly and Eckert invent the ENIAC and the UNIVAC I
the ENIAC would calculate artillery firing tables. Meanwhile the UNIVAC I would do simple arithmetic and data transport operations, the UNIVAC I was used to tabulate part of the 1950 population census and the entire 1954 economic cencsus -
Grace Hopper Pioneers New Ideas
Grace Hopper would pioneered the idea of automatic programming and would explore new ways to code a computer -
Mark Dean invents the first PC
Mark Dean would invent the first IBM Personal Computer, he also developed the first ISA bus and lead a team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip