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Charles Babbage
Originated the concept of a programmable computer, designing the first automatic computing engines. When he was young he was his own instructor in mathmatics. -
Herman Hollerith
Founder of a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly arrange statistics from millions of pieces of data. He graduated with a engenerring degree at age 19. -
Z1 Computer
It was a binary electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading instructions from punched tape.Each word of memory could be read from and written to by the control unit. -
1st generation computers
The first generation computer were slow , large, ran with vacuum tubes , they generated a lot of heat and weren't all the efficient. -
Eniac
The first electronic general-purpose computer.ENIAC's design and construction was financed by the United States Army. -
Univac
The second commercial computer produced in the United States. It was designed by the same people who designed Eniac. -
2nd generation computer
2nd generation computers were smaller than 1st generation, were reduced to microseconds from milliseconds,and portable. -
Jack Kiliby
American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI). Was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. -
3rd generation computer
the third generation used intergrated circuts and cheaper. -
BASIC
High level programming language. Kemeny and Kurtz wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn. -
Intro og the GUI
A computer program that enables a person to communicate with a computer through the use of symbols, visual metaphors, and pointing devices. -
Altair computer
Worlds first personnal computer designed by Ed Roberts. A keyboard wasn't provided, you had to toggle switches. -
4th generation of computers
fourth generation computers used a device called Microprocessor. They were smaller in size,cheaper,and faster.They were also very easy to handle. -
Bill Gates
Chief executive and chairman of Microsoft. He stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000 and then stepped down as chairmen in Febuary 2014. -
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur,marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. He also also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios. -
Apple II
One of the first computers with a microprocessor as its central processing unit. But it was missing one of the most important things, a disk drive. -
WordStar
The first word processor. It was a program made up of entirely text. -
Visicalc
The first spreadsheet for personal computers. Then came spreadsheets from Lotus, Microsoft, Borland and others. -
Osborne Computer
A computer company thaty made portable computers. After Adam Osborne sold his computer book publishing company he decided to sell inexpensive portable computers. -
Excel
Excel is a spreadsheet program. Microsoft originally marketed a spreadsheet program called Multiplan in 1982. -
PageMaker
The first desktop publishing program. It was called Aldus Pagemaker 1.0 -
Mosiac
Mosaic was the first commercial software that allowed graphical access to content on the internet.The browser was named for its support of multiple internet protocols. -
Netscape
Netscape is a web browser that secures online communic ation. It used to be called Mosaic Communications originally.
