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John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry - ABC Computer
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The ABC Computer (John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry Computer) was invented. The machine was not programmable, it was designed to solve linear equations. -
Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper - Harvard Mark I Computer
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The Harvard Mark I Computer was made. It was a Calculator. -
John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly - ENIAC 1 Computer
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The ENIAC 1 Computer was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States. -
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The Transistor
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Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn - Manchester Baby Computer and the Williams Tube
The worlds first Stored Program Computer. Some call this the First Computer, but that depends how you define Computer. -
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & William Shockley - The Transistor
May not be a Computer, but it played a great role in the invention of Computers. -
John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly - UNIVAC Computer
First commerical computer. -
International Business Machines - FORTRAN Computer Programming Language
The first successful high level Programming Language, -
Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America & General Electric - ERMA & MICR
The first Banking computer! -
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ERMA and MICR
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Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce - The Integrated Circuit
Otherwise known as "The Chip" -
Steve Russell & MIT - Spacewar Computer Game
The first ever Computer Game! -
Douglas Engelbart - Computer Mouse & Windows
Named the Mouse because the tail came out the end. -
ARPAnet
The Original Internet -
Intel 1103 Computer Memory
The world's first available dynamic RAM chip. -
Alan Shugart &IBM - The "Floppy" Disk
The clue is in the name. -
Faggin, Hoff & Mazor - Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor
The first microprocessor. A Microprocessor is a circuit that stores all the functions of a central processing unit. -
Robert Metcalfe & Xerox The Ethernet Computer Networking
Networking! -
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Consumer Computers!
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Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers
The first Consumer Computers! -
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More Consumer Computers..
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Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers
More first Consumer Computers.. -
Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston - VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software
The software that pays for itself in two weeks. -
Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby - WordStar Software
Word Processors!! -
IBM - The IBM PC - Home Computer
The International Business Machines Corporation. -
Apple Lisa Computer
The first home computer with a GUI. -
Apple Macintosh Computer
The more affortable home computer with a GUI. -
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.
