"It was the first computer that people could actually use, " Mr Hauser told the BBC.
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This digital wave started with a trickle called TiVo, one of the first computer-hard-drive-based digital video recorders (DVRs).
The Apple 1 was the first computer built by the California technology company.
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During the mid-1900s, Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper invented the first computer compiler which helped computers understand simple commands.
Patents played almost no role in protecting the first computer operating systems.
Apple's iMac was the first computer, for example, to boast USB ports.
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Like a lot of people my age, the first computer I ever used was an Apple IIe, back in elementary school, which was full of them.
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Then, a secure communication link is established between the first computer and a second computer over a computer network based on the enabled secure communication mode of communication.
The first computer was created at the University of Pennsylvania and the first semiconductor was invented at Bell Labs in New Jersey, yet neither one was commercialized there.
AutEx was founded by my father, rolled out right at the dawn of the computer age in 1968, and can truly claim to be the first eCommerce business: the first computer network used to make money.
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And so it was that from 1947 to 1951, the MIT Digital Computer Laboratory designed the Whirlwind I, the first digital computer at MIT.
Osborne, for younger readers, made the first portable computer in the 1980s.
For instance, a calligraphy course that he took on a lark after dropping out of Reed College found practical application 10 years later in designing the first Macintosh computer, and influenced the typefaces used in other computers.
It brought us the first Macintosh computer, introducing to a mass market the GUI and the mouse and the ease of use and naturalness they made possible.
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Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
Jobs wanted the Apple II to be the first personal computer people used in their homes, so he sought inspiration for it in the kitchen appliance aisle at Macy's.
Jobs first rose to fame as the smooth-talking young co-founder of one of the first personal computer companies, Apple.
At the first personal computer trade show in Atlantic City, Jobs walked around taking a close look at all the competitors.
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The vanguard of this group was a motley set of people who styled themselves as the Homebrew Computer Club, which would probably qualify as the first industry association for the computer and electronics business.
First and MOST important CLARIFICATION, Steve WOZNIAK engineered and designed the First Apple Computer.
He rose to fame as the charismatic young co-founder of one of the first personal computer companies, Apple.
But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
Steve Wozniak, who built the first Apple computer, was one of those hobbyists.
The work of others like the engineer Tommy Flowers, who helped build the first programmable computer at Bletchley, named Colossus, was also left unacknowledged.
The first wearable computer was used in a Las Vegas casino in 1961 by Claude Shannon and Ed Thorp, mathematicians and gamblers from MIT.
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