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Charles Babbage
In 1832, Charles Babbge originated the concept of a programmable computer -
Konrad Zuse
Created the first freely programmable computer, Z1 Computer -
John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
John and Clifford created the first automatic electronic digital computer -
Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper
Howard and Graced invented the Harvard Mark 1 computer, a general purpose electro-mechanical computer that was used in the war effort during the last part of World War II -
John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
The first electronic general-purpose computer was built -
Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn
Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube, was the world's first stored-program computer -
John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
UNIVAC Computer, the first commercial computer & was able to pick presidential winners -
International Business Machines
IBM enters into 'The History of Computers', by inventing the 'IBM 701 EDPM Computer' -
John Backus & IBM
The FORTRAN Computer Programming Language, was the first successful high level programming language -
Stanford Research Institute
ERMA and MICR was the first bank industry computer -
Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
The Integrated Circuit, the chip, was invented -
Steve Russell & MIT
The first computer game, Spacewar computer game, was invented -
Douglas Engelbart
Created the mouse -
ARPAnet
This was the original internet -
Intel 1103 Computer Memory
The world's first available dynamic RAM chip. -
Faggin, Hoff & Mazor
Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor was the first microprocessor -
Alan Shugart & IBM
Alan Shugart creates the floppy disk -
Robert Metcalfe & Xerox
The Ethernet cable was invented, creating networks -
Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair
The first consumer computer was the IBM 5100 Computers -
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple
