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developed by Scottish mathematician John Napier for multiplication
Napier's Bones
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developed by English mathematician William Oughtred
slide rule
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Who built the first mechanical adding machine in Paris
Blaise Pascal
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Developed by blaise pascal for additions and subtractions
pascaline
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Developed the Stepped Reckoner, a mechanical calculating machine that adds, subtracts, multiples, and divides
Gottried von Leibniz
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Invented the weaving loom which used metal cards to thread, the first program
Joseph Jacquard
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Worked on the difference engine, for ship nav tables, and the analytical engine, the first "computer" because it followed instructions from punch cards
Charlie Babbage
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First programmer
Lady Ada Byron
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Who formed IBM and developed the tabulating machine used to calculate a census
Herman Hollerith
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Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper developed this large electromagnetically computer
Mark I
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First generation computers used
vacuum tubes
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Best known early computer developed at UPenn
Eniac
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The first computer
Atanasoof-Berry-Computer
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Who developed the idea that a computer stores instruction in a cpu, developed edvac and edsac
John Von Neuman
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First general purpose computer developed for scientific and commercial use
Univac
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Second generation computers used these
transistors
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Third generation computers used these
integrated circuits
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What gave birth to the era of microprocessors
Intel 4004
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Who programmed for Mark I, led the effort to develop colbol, coined the word debug
Grace Hopper
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John Backus developed this for scientific computing
Fortran
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First operating system
unix
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Who developed the C programming language
Dennis ritchie
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What was the killer application
visiCalc
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Based on the Mostek 6502 chip, developed by steve Woz
Apple I
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Steve Jobs and Steve Woz built this which came with a monitor and keyboard
Apple 2
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Developed Cp/m os, could have been Bill gates
Gary kildall
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IBM's first pc
acorn or IBM 5150
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Who redesigned the C programming language
Bjarne Stroustrup
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First computer to have a gui
Lisa
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First affordable computer to have a gui
The Mac
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1995 a new C++ languaged is developed named oak, later renmaed to ...
Java
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote a complier for this language on the altair
BASIC
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Best version of Windows
Windows 95
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Software Development Process
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