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Loom with punch cards
In France, Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden cards -
Babbage's baby
Babbage invents analytical engine -
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punch card system
Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census, accomplishing the task in just three years and saving the government $5 million. He establishes a company that would ultimately become IBM -
Iowa Univesity tries to build first computer
Iowa State University, attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts or shafts. -
HP is founded
HP is founded in garage in california -
solved 29 equations using computer
Atanasoff design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously -
ENIAC - Grandfather of digital computers
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC) was built. -
Integrated circuits - Computer chip
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit. -
Unix
Unix was written by Bell labs -
Personal computes hit market
number of personal computers hit the market, including Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair, IBM 5100, Radio Shack's TRS-80 — affectionately known as the "Trash 80" — and the Commodore PET -
Apple
Steve jobs founds Apple -
Turing Machine
Alan Turing invents what is known as Turing Machine -
IBM enters PC market
IBM lauches its PC product line -
Windows
Microsoft launches windows OS -
Google
Google was founded in California -
Macbook
Apple gives Macbook