Exhibits-Timeline of Computer History

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   In 1988, the movie “Tin Toy” became the first computer-animated film to win an Academy Award. The company that created it was      
   
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   In 1945, Grace Hopper recorded the first actual computer “     ”, a moth stuck between the relays.
   
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   In 1948, who coined the term “cybernetics”?     
   
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   In 1949, the Manchester       computer functioned as a complete system using the Williams tube for memory.
   
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   In 1989, Maxis released       a video game that helped launch a series of simulators. Other Sims followed in the series, including      ,      , and      
   
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   In 1983, MIDI which stands for       was introduced at the first North American Music Manufacturers show in LA.
   
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   In 1987, Apple engineer,       designed HyperCard, a software tool that simplifies development of in-house applications.
   
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   In 1990, the       was born when Tim BernersLee developed HTML.
   
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    In 1980,       created the first hard disk drive for microcomputers. It held       megabytes of data.
    
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    In 1982, Disney released       one of the first movies to use graphics in movies.
    
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    In 1970, Citizens and Southern National Bank in Valdosta, GA, installed the country’s first      
    
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    In 1976, Steve Wozniak and       got their start in business by designing the APPLE I.
    
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    In 1946, in February, the public got its first glimpse of the      .
    
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    In 1978, the       flexible disk drive and diskette were introduced by Shugart and Associates.
    
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    In 1978, Texas Instruments, Inc. introduced       a talking learning aid for ages 7 and up.
    
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    In 1988, Apple cofounder, Steve Jobs, who left Apple to form his own company, unveiled the       computer.
    
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    In 1977, the Apple II computer contained a cassette tape with the computer game       that produced brilliant color graphics when hooked up to a color television set.
    
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    In 1984, Apple Computer launched the      , the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphics user interface introduced during the 1984 Super Bowl.
    
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    In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen licensed      , as the software language for the Altair.
    
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    In 1947, On December 23,       Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen successfully tested this point-contact transistor, setting off the semiconductor revolution.
    
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    In 1953, at MIT, Jay Forrester installed magnetic core memory on the       computer.
    
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    In 1954, A silicon-based junction transistor, perfected by Gordon Teal of Texas Instruments Inc., brought the price of this component down to $2.50. The company became a household name when the first       incorporated Teal's invention.
    
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    In 1961, Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. invented the resistor-transistor logic (RTL) product, a set/reset flip-flop and the first integrated circuit available as a       chip.
    
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    In 1972, Intel invented a microprocessor that could handle both uppercase and lowercase letters, all 10 numerals,       marks, and a host of other symbols.
    
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    In 1994, the       zip disk is released.