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Charles Babbage
Designed the first automatic calculator, called the Analytical Engine -
Herman Hollerith
First to take Jacquard's punchcard concept and apply it to computing with Hollerith Tabulating Machine -
Z1 Computer
First computer to include certain features integral to todays systems -
Eniac
First eletronic general-purpose -
1st Generation Computers
The Univac was the first generation computer -
2nd Generation Computers
Scientists at the Bell Telephone laborators in New Jersey invented 2nd Generation -
Univac
Name of a line of used electronic digital stored-program -
3rd Generation Computers
Design enabled computers to became smaller and lighter -
Jack Kilby
Worked at Texas instruments invented the world's first integrated circuite, a small chip capable of containing thousand of transister -
Basic
A language that beginning program student could easly learn.
Beginners All-Purpose symbolic intruction code. -
Bill Gates
Bill Gates and Paul Allen used BASIC to write their program for the Altair -
4th Generation Computers
Computer that use a microprocessor chip -
Introduction of the GUI
GUI - Graphical User Interface
Apple was the first company to take full commerical advantage of the GUI -
Altair Computer
The First Personal Computer.
No keyboard, No Monitor and not a user friendly -
Steve Jobs
Worked for computer game manufactuer Ataria at thr time, liked Wozniak's prototypes and made few suggestions.
Together they bulit a personal computer, Apple I. -
Apple II
Apple included a color monitor, sound, and game -
Wordstar
First microcomputer word processor. -
Osborne Computer
First portable computer -
Visicalc
First spreadsheet computer program -
PageMaker
Adobe
Can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspaper, and books. -
Mosaic
Web broswer
This broswer allowed users to view multimedia on the web. -
Excel
Is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows. -
Netscape
Web beowser
Soon became a predominant player in browser software
