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By lacraig

  • when computers were made

    when computers were made
    In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results. Unfortunately, because of funding he was never able to complete a full-scale functional version of this machine. In June of 1991, the London Science Museum completed the Difference Engine No 2 for the bicentennial year of Babbage's birth and later completed the printing me

  • who was the first person to use a computer

    who was the first person to use a computer
    Wilhelm Schickard of Wurttemberg (Germany) builds the first discrete automatic calculator, essentially starting the computer era

  • computer game

    computer game
    1947 - The year the first game is designed for play on a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)

  • first computer in the store

    first computer in the store
    1948 - SSEM, Small-Scale Experimental Machine (code name "Baby") is built at the University of Manchester, it is the first computer to store both its programs and data in RAM

  • nasa use computer

    nasa use computer
    NASA becomes operational and the first integrated circuit is produced

  • computer game

    computer game
    1961 - A group of students at MIT (including Steve Russell) programs a game called "Spacewar"

  • nasa computer

    nasa computer
    1962 - NASA launches Mariner 1 (it subsequently goes off course during launch due to a missing "bar" in its FORTRAN software

  • what kind of hard drive did the first computer have

    what kind of hard drive did the first computer have
    IBM introduces the first drive using a wound-coil ferrite recording head.

  • first commercial

    first commercial
    1971 - Intel releases the 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor

  • first computer role playing

    first computer role playing
    • Don Daglow, a student at Claremont Graduate University, writes the first computer role-playing game for PDP-10

  • first pc sell

    • The Commodore 64 is released and becomes the best-selling PC of all time

  • homecomputer

    homecomputer
    The home computer Enterprise 128 is announced

  • what kind of computers workers use

  • what did people use computer back then

    what did people use computer back then
    they use it to talk with people and do business work and ho

  • apple launches computer

    apple launches computer
    • Apple computer launches Macintosh, announced by a single commercial broadcast during Super Bowl XVIII

  • apple

    apple
    1977 - The Apple II personal computer is launched