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  invnted by the University of pensilvania. It took up the space of a big room
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  First commercial computer
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  FORTRAN or formula translation was the first high level programming language
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  ERMA was first demonstrated to the public in 1955
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  The first data exchange over this new network occurred between computers at UCLA and Stanford Research Institute
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  otherwise known as "the chip"
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  the originl internet
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  In late 1969, a potential client from Japan called Busicom, asked to have twelve custom chips designed
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  a $30,000 computer
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  The first consumer computer
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  Apple did not begin to take off until 1977
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  WordStar was the first commercially successful word processing software program produced for microcomputers
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  secret plans were referred to as "Project Chess".
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  The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.
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