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1.The Abacus was the first computer created in China.
2.Blaise Pascaline created the first Pascaline calculator.

3.Charles Babbage is known to some as the father of computing .  Punch Cards were used to create programs in the mainframe era and were also used as notebooks post its and bookmarks.
4.Ada Byran was the first Programmer. (also known as Lord/ Lady Lovelace )
5.International Business Machine is what IBM stands for.
6.The Mark 1 is 51 feet long and and weighs  5 tons.
7.The first computer bug was found lodged in the Mark 2 computer and beaten to death in the jaws of relay. Since that day when there is something wrong with a computer and people fix it they say they are debugging it.(it was found by Grace Murray hopper)
8.ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. The ENIAC was 1,800 square feet.
9.Vacuum tubes worked by using large amounts of electricity to heat up a flamment inside, a triode controlled the electrons  to a positively charged plate in the tube. Now you can represent a zero by the absence of an electron current to the plate.
10. Contained Transistors replaced Vacuum tubes.
11. A circuit where the wires and circuits are carved into the chip.
12.Bill Gates and Paul Allen created the first program for the Altair it was called the Basic Compiler. The company that they have is called IBM.
13.FORTRAN stands for Formula Translation, and it is
A high-level programming language for problems that can be expressed algebraically, used mainly in mathematics, science, and engineering.
COBAL is a development of stored energy.
ALGOL stands for algorithms .
An algebraic computer language for solving primarily mathematical and scientific problems using algorithms .
14.Steve Wozniac and Steve Jobs created the Apple II and the company they later formed was Microsoft and apple corporations .It had 4 kilobites of memory.
15.The Operating system for IBM’s 1981 Computer was DOS
16.The computer was the person of the year .
17. If the motor car had had the same degree of improvement in the past 100 years then it would have a gas consumption of one thimble full per hundred miles, travel at 3,000,000 miles per hour, and be cheaper to replace than pay the parking fee downtown!
18.The internet was first developed for the Military .