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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage, unfortunately, never completed his Analytical engine, A machine designed to solve mathmatical problems, but I doubt he really had the means to do so in his time. More info -
Ada Lovelace
Read more Here or here
Ada Lovelace is Thought of as one of the first computer programmers. I find this strange, being one of only three girls in my computing class, but also amazing considering how girls were educated in those days. She predicted that computers would be able to do more than solve maths in the future. -
UNIVAC
http://www.thocp.net/hardware/univac.htm--the first Universal automatic computer, Univac, was delivered to the census bureau-- -
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The computer mouse
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/613/The-History-of-the-Computer-Mouse/ -Read about this innovation here! -
Cray 1
http://www.thocp.net/hardware/cray_1.htm <---find out about the worlds first supercomputer here -
Sinclair
http://www.robosoft.co.uk/sinclair/wiki.html The first real home computer, sales were high -
IBM 5150
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Commodore 64
http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/c/Commodore_64.htm http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/1336/Commodore-64/C64, or Commodore 64, is the best selling personal computer model of all time. Commodore International released the C64 to the market in 1982 and it was sold for over a decade. -