History of Computers

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History of Computers

• Created by

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1940s

• First color TV broadcast
• First terminals by Bell Laboratories
• Complex Number Calculator from Bell Laboratories

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1950s

• 1953
• First high-speed printer for UNIVAC
• 1953
• First magnetic tape device (IBM 726)
• 1953
• IBMs 701 1st generation computer

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1960s

• Removable Disks are made
• 1966
• Texas Instruments make hand-held calculator
• 1968
• Apollo Guidance Computer used for Apollo 7

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1970s

• 1975
• 1st computer store opens in Santa Monica, CA
• 1976
• Steve Wozniak designs Apple I
• 1978
• SPRINT business service is in motion

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1980s

• 1981
• Osborne Computer make Osborne I, 1st portable
  computer
• 1982
• Time Magazine calls the computer Man of the
  Year
• 1984
• Apple introduces the Macintosh computer

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1990s

• 1990
• World Wide Web formed by Tim Bernerslee
• 1992
• Microsoft introduces Windows for Workgroup
• 1994
• Yahoo is founded as Internet search engine

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2000s

• 2001
• Runescape, an online game, was founded
• 2003
• Myspace founded by Thomas Anderson
• 2004
• Facebook founded by Mark Zuckerburg

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Works Cited

• http//www.cyberstreet.com/hcs/museum/museum.htm
• http//www.computerhistory.org/timeline
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing