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Herman Hollerith creates Punch Card System
Herman Hollerith makes a punch card system to calculate the 1880 cencus, finishing the task in only three years and saving the Goverment $5 million. He then creates a company that would become IBM. -
J.V. Atanasoff attempts to make a computer
J.V. Atanastoff was a professer in phyics and mathematics at Iowa Sate University, he tries to build the first computer with no gears,cams,belts and shafts. -
J.V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry make History
Atanasoff and one of his gradutate students, Clifford Berry makes a computer that solves 29 equations. This makes history for the first time a computer is able to store information on it's main memory. -
Grace Hopper creates first Computer Language
Grace Hopper crates the first computer language, which becomes COBOL. The inventor Thomas Jhonson Watson Jr., son of the IBM CEO Thomas Watson ,Sr., convinced the IBM 701 EDPMA to help United Nations watch over Korea during war. -
Fortran Language
The FORTRAN language is created. -
Alan Shugart creates the Floppy Disk
Alan Shugart makes a team of IBM engineers who then create the "Floppy disk", for data to be shared among computers. -
Robert Metcalfe and Ethernet
Robert Metcalfe was a member for the research staff for Xerox, He creates the Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and other hardware. -
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak with Apple 1
Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak launch Apple Computers on April Fool's Day and bring out Apple 1, thefirst computer that has a single-circuit board. -
Radio Shack Hits it BIg
Radio Shack's production run of the TRS-80 was 3,000. Finally, non-geeks could write programs and make a computer do what they want. -
Word Processing
Word zprocessing becomes real and MicroPro International teakse Word Star. -
Apple's Lisa makes a Flop
Apple's Lisa the first personal computer with GUI. It also has drop-down menu and icons. It flops but eventually becomes Macintes. -
Microsoft creates Windows
Microsoft makes windows it's, reaction to Apple's GUI. Commodore shows Amiga 1000, which has advanced audio and video capabilites. -
Compaq Hits it Big with Deskpro 386
Compaq makes Deskpro 386. It has 32-bit architecture provides speed and comparable to mainframes. -
Apple's Courtcasen against Microsoft
Microssoft invest $150 million inApple, who were struggling at the time, ends Apple's court case aginst Microsoft. That Microsoft copied the 'look and feel' of it operating system. -
Apple Creates the Ipad
Apple's creates the Ipad, changing the way people view media. Starting the dormant tablet computer segment.
