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punch cards
joseph marie jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden cards to automatically weave fabric designs -
fisrst computer
charles babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers -
IBM
herman hollerith designs a pucnh card system to calculate the 1880 census, save the government 5 million, he establishes a company that would ultimatelly become IBM. -
turing machine
alan turing presents the notion of a universal machine, later called turing machine, capable of computing anything thatt is computable. the central concept of the modern computer was based on his ideas. -
HP
hewlett packard is founded by David packard and bill hewlett. -
29 equiatons simultaneously
atanasoff and clifford berry design a computer taht can solve 29 equiatons simultaneously, this mark the first time a computer is able to store information on its main memory. -
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ENIAC
john macuhly and j. presper eckert, build the electronic numerical integrator and calculator (ENIAC). the grandfather of digital computers. -
UNIVAC
macuhly and presper leave the university and receive funding from the census bureau to build the UNIVAC, the firt commercial computer for bussiness and government aplications. -
transistor
william shockley, jon bardeen and walter brattain invent the transistor, discovered hor to make an eletric switch with solod materiales without vacuum -
FORTRAN
the programing language is developed by a team of programers at IBM -
INTEGRED CIRCUIT
jack kilby and robert noyce unveil the integrated circuit. -
prototype of modern computer
douglas engelbart shoes a prototype of modern computer with mouse and grapfical user interface, this marks evolution of the computer from a specialized machine for scientists -
INTEL 1103
the newly formed intel unveils the intel 1103, the first dynamic access memory -
floppy disk
alan shugart invent the floppy disk. -
ETHERNET
robert metcalfie develop ethernet. -
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personal computers
a number of personal computers hit the market -
microsoft
paul allen and bill gates, ofter to writee software for the altair, using the new BASIC language, after the success of this first endeavor, the two chlhood friends from thir own software company, microsoft. -
Apple computers
steve jobs and stve wozniak star apple computers. -
Apple II
jobs and wozniak incroporate apple and show the Apple 2 at the first coas computer faire. -
the first compputerized spreadsheet program
accountants rejoice at the introduction of VisiCalc, the first compputerized spreadsheet program -
IBM personal computer
the first IBM personal computer Acorn -
Apple's lisa
the first perosnal computer with a GUI -
WINDOWS
microsoft announces windows. -
term WIFI
the terms WIFI becomes part of the computing language -
the mac OS x
apple unveils the Mac OS x -
64 bit
the first 64 bit ptocessor -
MaBook pro
apple introduces the MaBook pro -
Windows 7
microsoft launches windows 7 -
quantum computer
the first reprogrammable quantum computer was created
