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  • the first computer invented

    the first computer invented
    There is no easy answer to this question due to the many different classifications of computers. The first mechanical computer, created by Charles Babbage in 1822, doesn't really resemble what most would consider a computer today. Therefore, this page provides a listing of each of the computer firsts, starting with the Difference Engine and leading up to the computers we use today.

  • The transistor

    The transistor
    The transistor was invented by Bell Telephone Company. It wasn't a computer in itself'but it was a vital computer component.

  • IBM

    IBM
    International Business Machines came out with their first computer machine. and this is how some of the computers are getting developed

  • The computer chip

    The computer chip
    Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invented the integrated circuit'better known as the computer chip.

  • Origin of the Apple I

    Origin of the Apple I
    The first computer worthy of the name “computer” was produced more than 60 years ago. It was a monstrous machine, covering more than 136 square meters and used 18,000 vacuum tubes (the predecessors to the transistor). It was capable of computing the sum of 5,000 numbers ten digits in length per second. It’s name was ENIAC, and it was completed in 1946.
    Two years after ENIAC was completed, the Manchester Mark 1 was completed. It was designed by John von Neumann and Alan Turing.

  • The mouse is invented

    The mouse is invented
    Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse. He called it the mouse because the cord came out the back like a tail.

  • The internet

    The internet
    The first internet was called ARPANET. The original internet wasn't used very widely because not many people had access to it.

  • The first personal computers

    The first personal computers
    The first personal computers, introduced in 1975, came as kits: The MITS Altair 8800, followed by the IMSAI 8080, an Altair clone. (Yes, cloning has been around that long!) Both used the Intel 8080 CPU. That was also the year Zilog created the Z-80 processor and MOS Technology produced the 6502. Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote a BASIC compiler for the Altair and formed Micro-soft.

  • The first personal computers

    The first personal computers
    IBM and Apple were just a couple of the brands that put out the first personal computers.

  • Apple II Computers

    Apple II Computers
    While the Apple I was still available, Wozniak began to design the Apple II. His vision was a computer very similar to the Apple I, but with support for a color display, sound, and greater expandability. He hoped to build a computer fit to run Breakout. He could use color and sound in BASIC and attach paddles through the expansion slots.
    All of the features that made the Apple II a good Breakout platform also made it a good personal computer.

  • Atari’s 8-bit Personal Computers

    Atari’s 8-bit Personal Computers
    Atari got its start in 1972 with Pong, one of the earliest video consoles aimed at the arcade community. Pong was loosely based on ping-pong, and there were soon copycat games competing with it. In 1975, Atari sold a Home Pong game through Sears, which could be connected to a TV set and let people play Pong at home.

  • The IBM PC

    The IBM PC
    Buyers could get a fairly loaded machine with a floppy controller, two floppy drives, a monochrome display adapter and 720 x 350 pixel green screen monitor, a color display adapter and CGA (320 x 200 with 4 colors or 640 x 200 with 2) monitor, a parallel card, a dot matrix printer, and an operating system – with the choice of CP/M-86, the UCSD p-System, or PC-DOS (a.k.a. MS-DOS). Pretty much everything was an option, and everyone recognized that the IBM PC was based on idea.