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At MIT, Jay Forrester installed magnetic core memory
Babbage's Analytical Engine Operates For The First Time
Barclays Bank in the UK claims to have installed the first cash dispenser
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Birth of modern data processing by Herman Hollerith
Boots the Chemist upgrades to IBM 370/145 computers
Britain exports more computing equipment than it imports
British Airways Board order for 2 IBM 370/168 queried by House of Commons
Central Electricity Generating Board doubles data transmission rates to 9,600 bits per second
Charles Babbage is Born
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Clive Sinclair reintroduces the first pocket calculator
Commodore Business Machines (CBM) is founded.
Control Data Corporation (CDC) releases 667 and 669 magnetic tape transports
DEC PDP-15 Introduced
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EDSAC performed its first calculations
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Google now indexes over 8 billion pages
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Grace Hopper recorded the first actual computer "bug"
Green Shield Trading Stamp orders second NCR Century 200 for automated stock control
Heinz Nixdorf founded Nixdorf Computer
Herman Hollerith was born 29th February 1860
Hewlett Packard Founded
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IBM Announces a loss of $4.97m for 1992
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IBM releases the System 360 range of commercial computers
IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator was built
ICL 1906A trebles power at Chilton Atlas Lab
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Pascal's calculator or the Pascaline constructed
Plessey buys out Ferranti's numerical Control Interests
Samuel Morland builds a mechanical calculator that will add and subtract
Sinclair launches the ZX Spectrum computer
Sinclair ZX80 Launched
Sinclair ZX81 Computer Lanuched
Sir Thomas Browne coined the phrase ‘computer’.
Slide Rule invented by William Oughtred
Steve Furber appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours
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Steve Jobs was born
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The Z-80, 8 bit processor is designed by Zilog Corp
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The first Colossus is operational at Bletchley Park.
The First Computing Journal
The hand-held pocket calculator was invented at Texas Instruments in 1966
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The MK14 was introduced by Science of Cambridge
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Wilhelm Schickard invented a calculating machine,
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Xerox Palo Alto Research Center designed the Alto
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