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15 Cards in this Set
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First Computers
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They where used government and military purpouses
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Steve Wozniak
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Debuted the Apple-I at the Homebrew Club in 1976
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Apple
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Grand producer of personal computers
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Steve Jobs
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The founder of Apple
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Apple-I
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A pc with a building kit and an instruction manual that was given away for 666.66 dollars
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8008 Homebrew Microcomputer
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Intel’s 8080 microprocessor in 1974 made it even easier for individuals to build computers.
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Kenbak-1
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Designed in 1971, before microprocessors were invented, the Kenbak-1 had 256 bytes of memory and featured small and medium scale integrated circuits on a single circuit board.
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TRS-80 Personal Computer
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Companies capitalized on the blossoming computer interest with products requiring little expertise. These included three influential computers introduced in 1977: the Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET.
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IBM Personal Computer CPU
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IBM introduced its PC in 1981 with a folksy advertising campaign aimed at the general public. Yet, the IBM PC had its most profound impact in the corporate world.
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Eagle personal computer
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With numerous computers using IBM’s design, programmers concentrated on “IBM-compatible” software, an incentive for customers to choose PCs. But clones eroded IBM’s sales. By the mid 1980s, IBM was losing its lead in a market it had created.
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Apple iMac poster
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As computers went mainstream, so did computer advertising. Early promotions targeted specialty shops and magazines. But greater acceptance and more varied customers opened a mass market. And that required mass media.
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VisiCalc software
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As PC users became more numerous and diverse, entrepreneurs vied to meet (and create) demand for new and varied applications.
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After Dark screen savers
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The growing dominance of PCs and Windows encouraged programmers and entrepreneurs to develop software designed for that combination.
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Aldus PageMaker
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PageMaker, introduced in 1985, complemented Apple’s LaserWriter printer. Along with other Mac-specific publishing programs, it helped play midwife to the birth of desktop publishing, a revolutionary new way of sharing information.
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Linus Torvalds with Linux penguin
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Torvalds described the first version of Linux in his 1991 M.Sc. thesis at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He posted a USENET message saying, “I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional…).” In 2009, some 10 million computers were running Linux.
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