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Difference engine
Charles Babbage Developed the first Automatic computing engine
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First General Mechanical Computer
Charles Babbage Proposed the first general Mechanical computer. Called the Analytical Enginge
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Henry Babbage completes Charles Babbage section of his Analytical machine
Henry Babbage Charles youngest son Completes the section of the Analytical Machine so it was able to preform basic calculation.
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First Binary programmable computer Z1.
The first programmable computer was made in Germany by Konrad Zuse in his parent's living room and made the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer.
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First Digital Computer
short for, Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC was started developed by John Vincent Atanasoff. With cliff berry's Help the team was able to build the first digital computer in 1942
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Colossus The first Programmable Computer
Colossus First programmable computer made by Tommy Flowers
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Eniac
Invented by J. Presper Eckert The Eniac weighed 50 tons and occupied 1800 square feet. It also used 18000 vaccum tubes. Even though the ABC was the first digital computer the Eniac is also considered the first digital computer because, it is fully functional.
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First computer company
The ECC short for Electronic Controls Company was the first computer company to exist. Founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly Released a series of mainframe computers under the name of UNIVAC.
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First stored program electronic computer
The early british computer known as the EDSAC preformed its first calculation to become the first stored progam computer on mmay 6th 1949.
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US stored program computer
Delivered to the US GOV in 1950 the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101 Was capable of running and storing a program from memory.
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First commercial Computer
the Z4 was the first commercial computer to be sold on the market on July 12th 1950. This computer was made by Konrad Zuse, and sold to, Eduard Stiefel
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First PC (IBM compatible) Computer
The 701 Introduced by IBM to the public on april 7th 1953 was the first electronic and massed produced computer.
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First computer with RAM
MIT intorduces the Whirlwind machine on march 8th 1955 a computer that was the first digital computer with Magnetic Core RAM and real time graphics
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First Transitor Computer
The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) is the first transistorized computer to be demonstrated at MIT in 1956
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Mini Computer
In 1960 The company Digital Equipment Corporation realeased first of many PDP computers as the PDP-1
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First Mass Market PC
Hewlett Packard began making and mass producing and marketing the HP9100A.
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First Microprocessor
Intel Produces the first microprocessor, the intel 4004 in November 1971 on the 15th.
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The First Commercial non-assembly computer
The Micral, Is considered to be the first commercial non-assembly computer. The Micral used a intel 8008 processor and sold for 1.750 in 1973.
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First apple computer
Steve Wozniak Designed the first apple computer known as the apple 1 in 1976.
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First PC Clone
The Compaq Portable is considered to be the first PC clone. The Compaq Portable was 100% compatible with IBM computers and was capable of running any software developed for IBM computers.
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The first multimedia computer
Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard.
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