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Was invented by the US army for launching balistic missles. The Eniac cost abou 500,000 dollars & covered a small gymnasium.
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First commercial computer . Able to pick presidential winners.
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RAND develops the idea of distributed, packet-switching networks. ARPANET goes online in 1969.
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The first consumer computers
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The Ethernet standards comprise several wiring and signaling variants. Data rates were periodically increased from the original 10 megabits per second to 100 gigabits per second.
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It weighed 24 pounds. It also cost $1795.
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The more affordable home computer. This computer had the GUI.
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1998 is when the name bluetooth was adopted. Bluetooth had over 400 members by the end of the year.