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Computers Timeline
By: Adan and Cameron
1642 AD - Pascaline
First digital calculator
Adds automatically
Can add big numbers easily
Ada Lovelace
Explained how the engine worked
Considered the first programmer
1890 AD - IBM
IBM company formed
Later on, they created one of the first
modern computers
1939 AD - HP
Hewlett-Packard company founded
Created a test machine for engineers
1946 AD - ENIAC
US military research for a calculating
device
Used to make weapons with high accuracy
Was very large and heavy, with 18000
vacuum tubes
1947 AD - Transistors
Replaced vacuum tubes
Much smaller and faster
1951 AD - UNIVAC
First successful computer used
commercially
1968 AD - Intel
Intel company founded
Microprocessor created (Intel 4004 chip)
1975 AD - Microsoft
Microsoft company founded by Bill Gates
MS-DOS created
Later created first point and click OS
1977 AD - Apple
Apple company founded by Steve Jobs
Later in 1979 created the Macintosh
computer
1984 AD Dell
Dell company founded by Michael Dell
Later created first Dell computer, called
the Turbo PC
1996 AD - Google
Google founded by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin
In 2001, Google Images was created
In 2005, Google Maps and Earth were
created
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