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The Difference Engine
It was a technological and social change after inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in making the machine but he did not actually make the machine. -
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Timeline on great leaps forward for computing
The great leaps forward for computing. -
Colossus
It was Alan Turing's idea which then Tommy Flowers made. If it was made by then , the allies would have won the war, and they did. -
HP - 2115
HP (Hewlet Packard) entered the general purpose computer business. It had more variety of languages. -
ARPANET
Expanded Computer- to- Computer Communication. -
Xerox Alto
They designed the Alto – the first station with a built – in mouse input. It also stored many of the files. -
VAX 11/780
Featured the ability to address up to 4.3 gigabytes of virtual memory, provides hundreds of the capacity of most minicomputers. -
Early publicity still for the Commodore 64
Came with 64 KB of RAM and featured impressive graphics. -
Compaq
The first computer to use Intel’s new 80836 chip, a 32- bit microprocessor. -
Video Toaster Installed at local Television Station
Was a video editing and production system from the Amiga line of computers -
Yahoo
Yahoo was founded by two Stanford Graduates, Jerry Yang and David Filo.
