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the begining
1882 - Charles Babbage creates a driven calculating machine although funded by the English government the project
inevitably failed -
new technology
Herman Hollerith creates a punch card cutting census time in half establishes a company that will ultimately become IBM (founded in 1911) -
taking a jump
J.V. Atanasoff a professor at Iowa state attempts the first computer without gears cams belts or shifts -
the begining of an era
Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, make a computer that solves 29 problems at once the first computer that has memory ever -
advancements
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce create the first computer chip -
making leaps
Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of a modern computer with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI) -
a new mindset arises
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start apple computers on April fools with the apple 1 -
connecting...
Robert Metcalfe develops “Ethernet” for connecting multiple computers -
The computer begins its modern trend
The IBM 5100 becomes the first commercially available PC -
furter advances
Radio Shack's initial production run of the TRS-80 was just 3,000. It sold like crazy. For the first time, non-geeks could write programs and make a computer do what they wished.
