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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage created a machine (Steam powered) that could calculate/compute large tables of numbers this was the first computer -
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith created a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census. This saved the goverment $5 million -
J.V. Atanasoff
J.V. Atanasoff a professor of physics at the University of Iowa built the first without gears,cams,belts or shafts -
J.V. Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
Atanasoff and his graduate student Clifford Berry design a computer that can process 29 problems simultaneously -
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert have built an Elctronic Numerical Integrator and a Calculatorthis takes up a 20 foot by 40 foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes -
Mauchly & Presper's UNIVAC
Mauchly & Presper leave the University and recieve a funding from the Cencus Bureau to create the UNIVAC. This is the first commercial computer for buiesness and goverment applications -
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper creates COBAL the first computer language (the coding inside of a computer, as shown in the picture.) Inventor Thomas Johnson Watson, Jr., son of IBM CEO Thomas Johnson Watson, Sr., conceives the IBM 701 EDPM to help the United Nations keep tabs on Korea during the war. -
FORTRAN is created
The FORTRAN language is born!!! Now you may think this isnt important but it is without the FORTRAN language computers and the recent technology wouldn't be the same as it is today -
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil their newest invetion the "pause for effect" INTEGRATED CIRCUT (a.k.a the computer chip) -
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart reveils a prototype with a modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI) -
Microsoft announces Windows
Microsoft announces Windows, its response to Apple's GUI but Commodore unveils the Amiga 1000 -
Compaq brings the Deskpro 386 to market
Compaq brings the Deskpro 386 to market, it had a 32-bit archiculture and it provides as speed comparable main frames -
Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple
Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple (which was struggling at the time) ending Apple's court case against Microsoft -
Wi-Fi
The term Wifi is a part of the computing language -
The iPhone
Apple releases the iPhone!!! This brings many computer functions a phone (a huge hit in America)
