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  • Steam Calculator

    A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, is a mechanical device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic automatically, or (historically) a simulation such as an analog computer or a slide rule. Most mechanical calculators were comparable in size to small desktop computers and have been rendered obsolete by the advent of the electronic calculator and the digital computer.
  • Hollierth punched cards

    Hollerith initially did business under his own name, as The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System, specializing in punched card data processing equipment.
  • HP computer

    Their first product was an audio oscillator and one of their first customers Walt Disney.
  • Grace Hopper COBOL

    This led to the COBOL language, which was inspired by her idea of a language being based on English words. Hopper promoted the use of the language throughout the 60s.
  • Period: to

    1960's

  • First superbowl

    Packers beat the Chiefs - 35-10
  • apple

    Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices.
  • Englebart

    A GUI or a Graphical User Interface is simply a technical term referring to the desktop environment of your computer.
  • Iphone

    The iPhone (retroactively referred to as the iPhone 2G, iPhone 1, or original iPhone) was the first iPhone model and the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc.
  • Google's first chromebook

    Critical reaction to the device was initially skeptical, with some reviewers, such as then New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, unfavorably comparing the value proposition of Chromebooks with that of more fully featured laptops running the Microsoft Windows operating system. That complaint dissipated later in reviews of machines from Acer and Samsung that were priced lower.
  • Apple's first watch

    Apple has introduced a new generation of the Apple Watch with improved internal components each September each labeled by Apple as a 'Series', with certain exceptions.