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Who Was Grace Hopper? Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and U.S Naval Officer, best known for […]
Who is Edgar F. Codd – Creator of the Relational Database Management System? Edgar Codd is the creator […]
The concept of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) — also known as transforming an image of printed text into a text […]
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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 […]
In November 1975, the electronics engineer Robert M. (Bob) Marsh founded the Processor Technology company in Berkeley, California. […]
3 Facts About Wang 2200 Computer The History of Wang 2200 Computer: What to Know The Wang 2200 Computer made […]
4 Facts about Simon Personal Communicator The History of Simon Personal Communicator: What to Know Touted as the world’s first […]
While the name might not ring a bell, the Sinclair ZX80 computer is one of the most important predecessors to […]
The SCELBI-8H was a personal computer that came in a kit form or assembled. It featured the 8-bit Intel 8008 […]
In 1987, the Texas Instruments’ engineer John Fairbanks (EE ’71 ’71’71 from Missouri University of Science and Technology) […]
Four Facts About the Xerox NoteTaker The History of Xerox NoteTaker: What to Know The NoteTaker was one of the […]
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Commodore 64 (commonly known as the C64 or CBM 64) was manufactured by Commodore Business Machine (CBM) in August 1982 […]
Wilhelm Schickard Wilhelm Schickard (see biography of Schickard) was born in the small south German town Herrenberg (near […]
The Abaque Rhabdologique of Claude Perrault The Parisian doctor of medicine Claude Perrault (see biography of Claude Perrault) […]
Du Bois D. Parmelee In 1850 Du Bois (Dubois) D. Parmelee from New Paltz, state of New York, […]
Henry Pottin In the middle 1870s, the French engineer Henry Pottin patented the first key-set crank-operated machine and […]
History of Computers and Computing, Mechanical calculators, 19th century, Maurel and Jayet The arithmaurel of Maurel and Jayet […]
Who was Wilhelm Küttner Friedrich Wilhelm Küttner (1841-1920), a German businessman from Burgk bei Potschappel (near Dresden), chose […]
Who Was Willgodt Odhner? Willgodt Odhner was a Swedish inventor and engineer. He invented a mechanical calculator and […]
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About the Tate-Layton Machine Tate-Layton Machine History The first English stepped drum machine (Thomas de Colmar-type arithmometer) was […]
Pafnuty Chebyshev Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Пафнутий Львович Чебышёв) (1821-1894) was a prominent Russian mathematician, professor of algebra, number […]
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3 Facts About The Burroughs Adding Machine Burroughs Adding Machine History The Burroughs Adding Machine was invented […]
Way back in 1730, the French Academy of Sciences — one of the leading authorities on scientific and […]
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Who was Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was born in 1856; he was a Serbian-American engineer and scientist who […]
