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charles Babbages
He came up with the idea of the first steam-driven calculating machine but it failed when built. -
Herman Hollerith
Made a punch card system that calculate the 1880 census. -
Alan Turing
He came up with the central conceit of the modern computer was made from his ideas -
Atanasoff and his students
They were able to make a computer that could solve 29 different problems simultaneously -
Douglas Engelbart
He was able to make computers more available to the public -
Alan Shugart
He and a team of engineers where ale to make the first floppy disk -
Gaming
PC were able to become gaming machines and games like command and conquer and Little big adventure were some of the games it hit the market place