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Howard Aiken Howard Hathaway Aiken was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 8 March 1900, as the only child in […]
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: Who was George Boole? George Boole was a self-taught mathematician, philosopher, and logician. The majority of his professional life […]
about WordStar Word Processor: The History of WordStar Word Processor: What to know Seymour Rubenstein and Rob Barnaby invented […]
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About Tetris What Is Tetris: Explained Tetris is a puzzle video game requiring players to strategically move, rotate, and drop […]
about Spacewar: What Is Spacewar? Spacewar is a two-player game, with each player taking control of a spaceship and attempting […]
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5 Facts About The TRS-80: Where to Buy? The TRS-80 Model 4 is currently being sold on eBay under the category of […]
In November 1975, the electronics engineer Robert M. (Bob) Marsh founded the Processor Technology company in Berkeley, California. He […]
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In 1987, the Texas Instruments’ engineer John Fairbanks (EE ’71 ’71’71 from Missouri University of Science and Technology) started […]
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When you consider that many people are likely reading this on a laptop today, the history of computers as portable machines […]
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The Micral Computer was created in 1973 by the French company Réalisation d’Études Électroniques. This was a series of micro-computers […]
In the history of computers, few are as memorable and as important to a company’s history as that of the […]
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