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Charles Babbage
Mechanical Engineer ,and Inventor.Creator of the Analytical Engine,the first automatic calculator. -
Herman Hollerith
Creator Hollerith Tabulating Machine.Used to by U.S. Census Bureau to analyse U.S. Census data.Created the IBM(International Buisness Machines). -
Z1 Computer
Created by German Inventor Konrad Zuse.Binary Electrical driven mechanical driven .Contained control units and how to separate memory functions. -
Eniac
Created by John Mauchly and John Eckert.The first electronic digital computer.Weighted about 30 tons.ENIAC(Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). -
1st Generation Computer
first started in 1944.Computers used vacuum tubes to store data.Like the Atanastoff-Berry Computer.Also UNIVAC which was the last to use the 1st generation methods. -
2nd Generation Computer
Used transistors to store data.Invented by bell laboratories.Used by Charles Babbage company IBM. -
Univac
The first commercially digital computer.Last to use vacuum tubes to store the data needed.Operated on Magnetic Tape.UNIVAC(Universal Automatic Computer). -
Jack Kilby
Creator of the Integrated circuit .An Electric engineer at Texas Instruments.Won an Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for Physics. -
3rd Generation Computer
Used by Integrated circuits.Creator Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments.Making computers to become smaller. -
BASIC
Stands for "Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code".Introduced in 1964,created by Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny.Used on Microcomputers like for Digital equipment corporations. -
4th Generation computer
Use microprocessor chip.Introduced by Intel Corporations.contained transistors.Functioned off CPU. -
Altair Computer
In January 1975 , The First Personal Computer Altair 8800 was presented, without a keyboard or monitor.Created by the Owner and President of MITS(Micro Instrumentation Telemetry System) Ed Roberts.Bill Gates and Paul Allen soon after wrote a programming language called Altair BASIC. -
Bill Gates
Founder of worlds largest software,Microsoft.The language programmer for Altair 8800. -
Apple l and ll
Avaliable summer of1977,created by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.One of the first computers w/ color display.Contained a min. of 4K and max. of 48K RAM(Random Aceess Memory) -
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder of Apple Computers.Creator of Apple l and ll with Steve Wozniak.Chief executive of Pixar studios. -
WordStar
The First Word Processing Application.Bundled with the Poratble Osborne Computer.Published by MicroPro International. -
VisiCalc
The First Computer Spreadsheet Program.Inventor Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston.Featured on Apple ll.Supported by BASIC. -
Introduction Of GUI
Allowed interaction w/ electronic devices.Apple was the first company to take commercial advantage of GUI.Doug Engelburt produced the first working GUI. -
Osborne Computer
The First Portable Computer.Created by the Company Osborne,which was led by the entrepreneur Adam Osborne. Weighed 24 lbs. -
PageMaker
The first Desktop Publishing software.Created by the Alduc corportion.Relied on GUI,mainly for The Macintosh computer by Apple. -
Excel
The first Spreadsheet to use GUI(graphical user interface).Developed by Microsoft for the Macintosh. -
Mosaic
The first Internet Browser made.Mosaic allowed users to view multimedia on the internet.Developed by NCSA(National Center for supercomputing Applications). -
Netscape
Developed by Netscape. Based off the Mosaic browser.Creator named Marc Andreessen.