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Herman Hollerith
Herman designed a punch card system that calculated the 1880's census, saving the government 5 million dollars. He created the company that would become IBM -
Alan turing
Alan turing presented the notion of the turing machine, capable of computing anything computable. -
J.V. Atanostoff
The physics professor attempted to build the first computer without gears, cams belts or shafts. -
Hewlett packard is founded
David packard and bill Hewlett founded HP in california. -
The floppy disk
Alan shugart and his team of engineers at IBM invented the floppy disk, which allowed data to be shared among computers -
Microsoft
The two childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen form their own company, microsoft. -
Apple computers
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started apple computers, rolling out the apple one, the first computer with a single circuit board. -
The Apple Lisa
Apple released Lisa, the first pc with a GUI, the computer flopped but eventually evolved into the machintosh -
PC gaming
The PC becomes a gaming platform with games like command and conquer and descent releasing
