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John Bardeen, Walter brattain, and Wiliam Shockley
The transistor is created, which greatly affected the history of computer. -
John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly
First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners. -
International Business Machines
IBM enters into 'The History of Computers' -
John Backus & IBM
The First successful high level programming language -
Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric
During the 1950s, researchers at the Stanford Research Institute invented "ERMA", the Electronic Recording Method of Accounting computer processing system. ERMA began as a project for the Bank of America in an effort to computerize the banking industry. -
Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
The Integrated Circuit is invented -
Steve Russell & MIT
Space war First computer game invented -
Douglas Engelbart
Invents the computer mouse -
ARPAnet
Work had begun on the ARPAnet, grandfather to the Internet -
Faggin, Hoff and Mazor
The world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 was created by Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor -
ECN
Robert Metcalfe created ethernet computer Network for connecting computers within a building using hardware running from machine to machine -
Apple I
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the Apple I computer and started Apple Computers -
VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software
The first computer spreadsheet program was release to run on Apple II -
IBM & Bill Gates
IBM met with Bill Gate for the first time to talk about an operating system for IBM's new personal computer Acorn -
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft begins the Microsoft Windows, a next generation operating system that would provide a graphical user interface and a multitasking environment for IBM
