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The First Computer
The first computer is freely programmable. -
Hewlett-Packard
This was founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett in Palo Alto, California garage. -
The Complex Number Calculator
You can calculate using a teletype connected via special telephone lines. -
Z3 Computer
This computer is built early and consists of a 22-bit word length. -
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer
The ABC was at the center of a patent dispute relating to the invention of the computer. -
Project Whirlwind begins
During World War II, the U.S. Navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about building a flight simulator to train bomber crews. -
Harvard Mark-1 is completed
The Mark-1 was used to produce mathematical tables but was soon superseded by stored program computers. -
John Von Neumann
He wrote "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" in which he outlined the architecture of a stored-program computer. -
ENIAC
A machine built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert that improved by 1,000 times on the speed of its contemporaries. -
IBM's
IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed scientific data in public display near the company´s Manhattan headquarters