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Charles Babbage
he had the title father of computing. He designed the first automatic calculator called the analytical engine. -
Herman Hollerith
Inventor who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. -
Jack Kilby
He invented the world's first integrated circuit. A small chip capable of containing thousands of transistors. -
Z1 Computer
The z1 computer was the first thought of computer tha was designed by howard aikens and grace hopper. -
1st Generation Computers
The first computers used vacuum tubes for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory, and were often enormous, taking up entire rooms. They were very expensive to operate and in addition to using a great deal of electricity, generated a lot of heat, which was often the cause of malfunctions -
Eniac
Was another US government sponsored macgine developed to calculate the settings used for weapons. -
Univac
Fisrt generation of coputers and were the last to use vaccum tubes to store data. -
Steve Jobs
He wanted all apple computers to perfect company there was. He was alsow orking for the computer game manufacturer atari at the time. -
Bill Gates
Gates also was one of the founders of microsoft. He used basic to wrie altair. -
2nd Generation Computers
Transistors replaced vacuum tubes and ushered in the second generation of computers. The transistor was invented in 1947 but did not see widespread use in computers until the late 1950s. -
basic
Basic is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. -
3rd Generation Computers
The development of the integrated circuit was the hallmark of the third generation of computers. Transistors were miniaturized and placed on silicon chips, called semiconductors, which drastically increased the speed and efficiency of computers. -
4th Generation Computers
The microprocessor brought the fourth generation of computers, as thousands of integrated circuits were built onto a single silicon chip. What in the first generation filled an entire room could now fit in the palm of t -
Altar Computer
The release of the altar marked the start of the personal computer boom. the first owners was bill gates and paul allen were so enamored by the minicomputer. -
Apple II
Steve spple wanted the applecomputer to be perfect computer company. -
Wordstar
First word proccessing application. -
Osborne Computer
The Osborne 1 was first unveiled to the public at the March 1981 6th West Coast Computer Faire and May 1981 National Computer Conference. -
Visicalc
First electronic spreadsheet application yo be used. -
Mosaic
Was one of the first web browser. Now people could conduct rescreach and communicate in a new way. -
Netscape
A web browser which soon became a predomnant player in browser software. -
Introduction Of The GUI
Made it easiser for users to work on the computers. -
PageMaker
The first publishing software. -
Excel
A database functions to organize yoyr data. Able to work with an enormous amount of data.
