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Charles Babbage
designed the first automatic calculator -
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Herman Hollerith
Was the first to take Jacuqurd's Punch card concept and apply it to his machine -
Z1 Computer
Is thoughtto be the first computer include certain features intergral to todays system -
Eniac
Developed to calculate the setting used for Weapons. -
Importance of Basic
It Means Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code .Language that beginning programing that students could learn easily. -
First Generation Computers
The UNIVAC and regular computers where considered fist generartion. -
Univac
First commercially successful electronic ditigal computer. -
Second Generation Computers
Transistors replaced the bulky vaccum tubes. it was almost used for everything. -
Third generation Computers
The computers in this early intergrated circuit. -
Jack Kilby
While Working with Texas Instruments . he invented the worlds first intergrated circuit. -
Fourth Generation
Computers that used a mircoprocesser chip. -
Birth of GUI
A few years before Apple Launched its personal computer photocopier. -
Steve Jobs
He and Steve Wozniak form apple together. -
Altair Computer
Monochromac display
Cicuitry Hidden under the keyboard .
sold 10,000 the first month -
Wordstar
First Word Processing application. -
Visicalc
First electronic spreadsheet application. -
Bill Gates
He worked at microsoft to write an OS program for the IBM PC -
Osbourne
First Portable computer that weighted in 24.5 pounds -
Apple 2
Marketed to bussinesses and consumers
Floppy disks drives optional
64 KB to 256 KB Of RAM -
Page Maker
The first Desktop Publishing software . -
Excel
One of the first spreadsheet to use a graphical user interface. -
Mosaic
This Broswer allowed users to view multimedia on the web causing internet traffic to increase by nearly 350% -
Netscape
A team of developers launched netscape. which became a predominate player in broswer software.
