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Creations of the computer
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Z1 computer
Created by Konrad Zus; was the first freely programmed computer -
ABC computer
Created by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry; was first in the computing buisness -
Harvard Mark 1 computer
Created by Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper; was 55 feet long and 8 feet high, could carry out addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and reference to previous results -
Eniac 1 computer
Created by John Mauchly and John Presper Eckret the army needed a computer for calculating artillery-firing tables, the settings used for different weapons under varied conditions for target accuracy. -
Manchester Baby and The Williams Tube
Created by Sir Frederick Williams and Tom Kilburn; A metal detector plate placed close to the surface of the tube, detected changes in electrical discharges. -
The Transistor
Created by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley; was not a computer but greatly affected the history of computers. -
Univac Computer
Created by John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly; First commercial computer and able to pick presidental winners -
IBM 701 EDPM Computer
Created by International Buisness Machines; -
FORTRAN Computer Programming Language
Created by John Backus & IBM; the first successful high level programming language -
ERMA and MICR
Created by Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric; the first bank industry computer for reading checks -
The Integrated Circuit
Created by Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce -
Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers
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The IBM PC - Home Computer
created by IBM; personal computer -
Apple Lisa Computer
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Microsoft Windows
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Computers
