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Kondrad Zuse invented the Z1 computer. This computer was the first freely programmable computer. This is an important event because it was the first Z1 computer, and people could use it.
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Bell Telephone Laboratories completed the calculator. This calculator was designed by George Stibitz. You could perform calculaations on this new machine. This is important because with this new machine available people could plug in calculations if they didn't know an answer for something.
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The bombe was made in 1941 by Alan Turing and others. Many bombes were built. With all the people that helped built this, they all helped improved it and made many more. This helped the Nazi military communicate. This is an important invention because people could connect through this in WWII.
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The Colossus was operational at Bletchley Park. Tommy Flowers was the guy that made the Colossus. The Colossus was used to recieve messages way faster in WWII. This is important because the message people were trying to send out would get out faster.
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The UNIVAC computer was the first commercial computer and was able to pick presedential winners. John Presper Eckert and John W Mauchly were the ones that invented this. This is an important invention because with this machine you were able to pick presedential winners.
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A magnetic core was installed on the Whirlwind Computer. This made computers go faster, more reliable, and easier to make. Jay Forrster invented this. I think this is important because it made things go faster and more reliable.
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The very first computer game was invented and was named Spacewar Computer Game. It was invented by Steve Russell and MIT. I think this is an important event because if people were bored they could just play this new game that had came out.
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In California at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital they invented this brilliant thing. They invented it for the handicapped, this was a new tool for the handicapped. It gave the flexibility as a human arm.
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In 1975 the first portable computer was made. Altair was the person that produced the first portable computer. This event is important because for those who travel and had work on there computer they could now travel with there portable computer to places and have there work done.
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The word processers was made in 1979. Seymour Rubenstein and Rob Barnaby made the word processers. This is an important invention because people must have been waiting for this, and do work. People could complete work with this invention.
