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Charles Babbage
Designed the first autoatic calculator called the Analytical Engine. His invention gave him the title "Father of Computing" -
Herman Hollerith
The first to take Jacquard's pnch card concept and apply it to computing with his Hollerith Tabulating Machine which later emerge to IBM Regarded as "The Fatherof Modern Machine Data Processing -
Z1 Computer
A mechanical computer that was the first computer to include certain features integral to today's systems. It contained almost all the same parts as the modern computer. -
Eniac
Electronic numerical integrator and computer. It was the first successful high speed electronic digital computer. Eniac's design and construction was financed by the United States Army. -
Univac
It was the first commercially successful electronic digital computer operated on magnetic tape. in the 1960's Univac was more of the most popular out of eight major American computer industries. -
1st generation computers
The univac and computers like it were considered the first generation computers. They were the last computers to use vauum tubes to store data. -
2nd generation computers
A year after the Eniac was completed, scientists invented the 2nd generation. Still, transistors were limted as to how small they could be made. Invented at Bell Telephone Laboratories -
Jack Kilby
Invented the worlds first integrated circuit, a small chip capable of containing thousands of transistors. He won a noble prize in 2000 -
3rd generation computers
Computers in the early integrated-circuit generation These computers relied on Jack Kilby's integrated- circuit -
BASIC
Revolutionized the software industry and was a language that begining program students could easily learn. it was the key language of the PC -
Steve Jobs
Built A personal computer Apple 1 and formed Apple Computer Company. He was a member on the Board of Directors for The Walt Disney Company. -
4th generation computers
Computers that use a microprocessor chip, which is the brains of the computer. Most of today's computers are considered the 4th generation. -
Introduction of the GUI
Graphical User Interface. Allowed users to interact with the computer more easily using graphical icons and visual indicators. GUI's can be foun din devices such as mp3 players. -
Altair Computer
1st personal computer It had no keyboard or monitor -
Bill Gates
Founder of Microsoft. Ranked on the Forbe's List of Most Wealthy People -
Apple 2
1st computer to have spreadsheet, word processor, and desktop publishing. It encouraged more people to write their own programs. -
Visicalc
It was the first electronic spreadsheet appication. Became an instant success and made home users want to own a personal computer -
wordstar
The first word processing application Helped to make word processing important for personal computers -
Osborne Computer
1st portable computer The computer weighed 24 pounds! -
Pagemaker
The first desktop publishing software Pagemaker helped to popularize the Macintosh platform -
Excel
One of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical user interace. Became so popular that it put VisiCalc out of business -
Mosaic
It was the first browser to use pictures or graphics Its development was discontinued in 1997 but it can still be downloaded from NCSA. -
NetScape
A web browser that soon became a predominate player in browser software. Pressure from microsoft became too much and they decided to no longer charge for the code and made it available to the public