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Atanasoff Berry Computer
This machine was made in Iowa state by a man named Prof. John V. Atanasoff. This machine weighed about 750 lbs., and had a memory of 3,000 bits -
ENIAC machine
The eniac machine was the first computer build. The builder of this amazing machine was John W. Mauchly. However this machine ended up being build while world war 2 was going on. -
Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube
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Punch card technology
This was the first commercially successful computer. It was created by John Mauchly. Its memory was made of mercury filled acoustic delay lines that held 1,000 12 digit numbers. -
Vacuum Tubes
This invention is made up of either steal or glass. It was invented by John Ambrose Fleming. It had only a low vacuum that was 10-3 atm. -
transistor
This machine was origanally created in 1948 but did not come out tell 1960. It was invented by Dr. John Bardeen. It almost replaced the vacuum tube. -
laser printer
Gary Starkweather invents the laser printer while working with Xerox. This is important because it becomes a new breakthrough in devices, so we don't need to store all files on the computer anymore. -
CD
The compact disc (CD) is invented in the United States.
This is important because it was another type of storage that could be acessed easily, but was also portable. -
Apple Computers
Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.
This is important because it became a basis for all the computers, and they had many major breakthroughs in the technology world. -
Cray-1
The worlds first electronic computer. It was created by a man named Seymour Cray. At that time it was the fastest processer at that time. -
Personal Digital Assistants
You could play games, listen to music,and do numerical calculations on this machine. -
Google
Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. This is important because they created many applications and software that we use everyday. -
BCI
This is a chip that can be insertited into the brain to help the injured or the blind. Reseachers succeeded in creating the first wirerless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. it seems like in the next few decades this could become a huge consern, because it gives humans the ability to control the brain -
Smart Phones
People think that by 2017 smartphones will be smarter than humans, not because of intellegence, but because of the data that is stored it them. Computers will be our secret agegents, but only if we provide them with the right information. -
New computers
People want us to have newer glasses that help the elders that help them with their work or with taking pills. They are also looking forward to getting newer watches that do the same things.
