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Punch Card System Created
Herman Hollerith calculates the 1880 census with a punch card system. IBM is soon after created by Hollerith.
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Atanasoff Berry Computer
"J. V. Atanasoff in September 1939 with the assistance of his graduate student Clifford Berry, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer
The key ideas employed in the ABC included binary math and Boolean logic to solve up to 29 simultaneous linear equations. The ABC had no central processing unit (CPU), but was designed as an electronic device using vacuum tubes for digital computation.
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ENIC
The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, was created under the direction of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of Penn's Moore School of Electrical Engineering (now the School of Engineering and Applied Science). -
Fortran
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RAM Created
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First PC
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Floppy DIsk
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MS-DOS
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Apple Launches PC
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Windows
1985: Microsoft announces Windows to compete with Apple
