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history of computers timeline
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john napier
he created napiers bones which is a set of rods which can carry out complex calculations -
joseph-marie jacquard
he developed the weaving loom which used punch cards to replicate designed -
charles babage
he made a computer like machine that was called the "difference engine" -
hermon hollerith
he created a punch card to count U.S. census -
charles babbage's son
he compleated his fathers anylitical engine -
lee de forest
he invented the electronic tube which made it posible to devolop the electronic computer -
electornic machines
they were developed for the purpose of breaking german encryption codes. -
howard h. aiken
he created the first program controlled calculator -
ENIAC(electronic numerical integrator and computer)
capible of 100,000 calculations per second -
william b. shockley
he created a transistor -
EDVAC
first computer to use magnetic tape for storage -
UNIVAC I
first computer to produce in numpers for computers -
intagrated circuit
changed computing forever -
microprocessors
firstone was developed -
supercomputer
first supercomuter was the cary 1 -
apple II
steve wozniak and steve jobs invented both apple I and II -
personal computer
commodore buisness machine introduced the first personal computer -
microsoft
microsoft wrote an operating system for a pc
