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Designed the first automatic calculator. His invention gave him the title "father of computing".
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The first to take Jacquard's punchcard concept and apply it to computing with his Hollerith Tabulating machine. His machine was so successful that he left the Census Bureau in 1896.
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The first successful high-speed electronic digital computer. Served its purpose and remained in use until 1955.
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The first commercially successful electronic digital computer. It gained notoriety when, in a 1951 publicity stunt, it was used to predict the outcome of Stevenson Eisenhower presidential race.
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The Univac and the computers like the Univac were considered the first generation computers. They were the last to use vacuum tubes to store data.
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A year after the Eniac was completed, scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey invented the second generation computers. Still, translators were limtied as to how small they could be made.
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Invented the world's first integrated circuit. A small chip capable of containing thousands of transistors.
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A design that enabled computers to become smaller and lighter.
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The first to include certain features integral to today's systems, such as control unit and separate memory function.
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Language that beginning programming students to learn easily.
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These are computers that use a micro processor chip. (brains of the computer) The Intel Core i7 is one of Intel's most powerful processors.
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Allowed users to interact with the computer more easily. Apple was the company to take full advantage of this.
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The first personal computer. No keyboard, no monitor, and completely not user friendly.
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Him and Paul Allen are the founders of Microsoft.
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Him and Steve Wozhials form the apple computer.
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Spreadsheet program, word processor, and desktop publishing software. Encouraged less technically oriented computer enthusiasts to write their own programs.
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The first electronic spreadsheet application. Bob Frankstop created the program and more than 100,000 copies were sold in it's first year.
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The first processing application.
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The first portable computer.
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The first desktop publishing software.
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One of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical user interface. This was so popular it put Visicalc out of business, which is huge!
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The first to be able to creat graphics.
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It was launched by a team of developers and soon became a predominant player in browser software.