Explain History Of Computers Within 200 Words

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Explain History Of Computers Within 200 Words

1801: In France, Joseph Marie Jacquard develop the earliest programmable loom which in turn played an important role in the development of an early version of digital computer.

1822: The world’s first computer was actually built by Charles Babbage.

1941:  Atanasoff and Clifford Berry invented the first computer that was able to store information on its main memory and solve 29 equations simultaneously. 

1943-1944: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert build the grandfather of digital computers, it fills a 20-foot by 40-foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes.

1946: Release the first commercial computer for business and government.

1954: FORTRAN was invented at IBM by John Backus as the first computer language

1958: First computer chip was born.

1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduce the first computer with a single-circuit board.

1981: First PC was born. It uses Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system.

1994: PCs become gaming machines.

2001: Apple unveils the Mac OS X operating system and Microsoft rolls out Windows XP.

2006: Apple introduces the MacBook Pro.

2015: Microsoft releases Windows 10.

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Good history of pc

I think it can be summed up even simpler with Moore's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

All hail Charles Babbage. The father of Computers.