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....... ■ CMpttfalm intrar <to«td Um<o7o c*Mtp*ri«f system ’ ILLIAC *W- - I ntelXMpwaWWodwVdthc four mKropnw Micrupftces»oc "' r chips went fimlsold in large want uk* (1972). The mimiuced the Altairtrntx) mkrucumput er (19751 tommudme announced the first fully assembled ” *«W 2«h tiwn Radio Sha<k intriWuced the TRS-4W micrucomputer (1977 k The Apple II micro, . computer was announced (1977 k VLSI circuits began to lie used * ' '.- (19781 Magnetic bubble memory was first used tn commercial 1 machine# (1978). Sharp Corponwian tn:Japan announced the first■ hand held tompdtef <1979). MkrocompUtm are now widely Used in home* and school* (19821/ i Napier devdopwf » ftiLitoSi ill ii'»i Stw . . MMjhme Ubttl &r Tho BIBiEW dewkwed an ! HWllianit ■ 8 multiplier ■ Ki* cmniMmi iXu :«miM •' faM-hincum Thomas drvdutwd 3 cah u iMor tlteoj Charks Hah ,bagc designed the “differ-. (inm Charles Babbage conceived .the "analytical engine *.- 08331 D, D. rarmaleedevr? Mud the first key ditven calculator (1850) George; ■ Boule dctfdutad“Badran dKt-br.i“ tto 4 .1 i turd Kri vin-hmstructed a special purpose anakw computer (18721 Frank - Baldwin developed a' practical tourpruccss caleuU tor (1875 k WiHwat Bor--wBB r<. r V. <« ■' . ’ . ' .'■ >-’ : |lS|h| *.< >- wß,'' during World War II -(1943). Howard Aiken deve loped the Automatic Scoucmc Coot rulk-d Calculator (1944) John Mauchly •hd John Prosper Eckert built ENIAC (1945) The Association fur Computing <ACM) was formed. 0*47). F. C. Williams inEngland developed a storage tube (1947). The transistor was developed at Bell Laboratories (1948). Norbert Wiener introduced 'ey bernetics’Tl94B)7 ; EDSAC was completed tn: England (1949 C The word ’ ‘’automattun'" was ftrst 1 used in the 'automobile industry (195*0) The first Ihitvac I wus installed at the Census Bureau (19511 Jay Forrester al M.LT. developed the magnetic cme (ifel) John von Neumann built a "stored. program’* computer (19521 IBM annmmced the IBM 70| — its first large Scale computer system (19521 Grace Hopper developed the first symbolic language translator (1952). Bell Laboratories developed TRADIC — the first tran Mstortzed computer (1954) . IBM developed t he IBM 650 a popular data processing machine/ 09511 IBM developed the HIM 7os—first large wale computer to use magnetic • c0re(1,955). IBM introduced the scientific* IBM 704 computer (19561 The FOR TRAN programming fan-, guage was nevelopcd by / jX Backus (19571 IBM introduccdthelßM 1620 — a uipular small scale setenlute machine (1959) Control Data announced its (irst computer — the CHC 1604 (I 960 IBM introduced the IBM 1401 . data processing system (I 960 The COBOL pro gramming language was devc-ltmed (196111 nc first * time sharing machine was designed at KI I T (19611 The BASIC pro grammtng language was dev viol* d at Dartmouth College (1963) IBM intro duced the IBM SystemXdtiO - third generation cumpttter (19641. Digital Equip ment Corporation introduced the first minicomputer, the l‘Dl’*« 0965). IBM miro duced the 90*culumn card and the compu ter system (1969). IBM announced the IBM System 370 computer system ’3 iT * u ** rc ***9* ,t * r was designrd at the Uni versify of Illinois (19711 Intel Corporatton introduced the first tMcritpny ces'ww. the ><W.4t*7lL- < Microprocessor - chips; were (trit sold tn Urge omtotHies (1972) The first ffemw desk was totrb ? duredteHlUd(l973l.MlW