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This Day in History: First computer model introduced

(WDBJ) - On this day, 44 years ago, IBM introduced its first personal computer: the model 5150. The computer cost around $1500. It came with only two programs, one for spreadsheets and another for ...

75 years ago, a room-sized machine changed the world: The story of UNIVAC I

This year marks 75 years since one of the most important machines in computing history was switched on for the very first ...
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Computers : an illustrated history / Christian Wurster

Text printed parallel to spine. Man, machine, interface -- The scientific and military computers -- The mainframe computer -- The minicomputer -- The microcomputer -- The desktop computer -- ...
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The computer book : from the abacus to artificial intelligence, 250 milestones in the history of computer science / Simson L. Garfinkel and Rachel H. Grunspan

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...