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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Beads on rods to count and calculate</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-08 19:50:14 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1630 AD-Slide rule</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Based on Napier's rule for Logarithms </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-08 19:56:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1801 AD-Jacquard Loom</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>First stored program-metal cards</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-08 19:59:46 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1822-1833-Charles Babbage </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>-Difference engine<br>-Analytical Engine— Stored numbers on metal punch cards, accurate to 6 decimal places, powered by steam&nbsp;<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-08 20:03:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1941-1956 1st generation</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>1st generation computers used Vacuum Tubes with no air inside to protect circuitry&nbsp;<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-08 20:10:56 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1945-first computer bug</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Moth stuck in relay switch. Grace Hopper called it debugging a computer&nbsp;<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-08 20:13:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1951-Grace Hopper</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Created UNIVAC<br>Recipient of computer science's first"Man of the year award".</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-08 20:27:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1948-First transistor</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Us silicon, won nobel prize, had an on and off switch</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-08 20:30:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1951-UNIVAC</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>first fully electronic digital computer built in the U.S., Created at the University of Pennsylvania, weighed 30 tons, contained 18,000 vacuum tubes, Cost 487, 000&nbsp;<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-09 20:05:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1956-63- 2nd Generation</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>2nd Generation computers replaced vacuum tubes with transistors&nbsp;<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-09 20:06:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1956-63-Operating systems</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>&nbsp;Instructions for a computer that are loaded each time the computer is turned on&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-09 20:08:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1964-1971- 3rd Generation </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>3rd Generation computers used Integrated Circuits that were made of transistors, resistors and capacitors integrated into one chip&nbsp;<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-09 20:10:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1971-4th Generation</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>4th Generation computers had microchips. Intel 4004 Microchip had 2,250 transistors&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-09 20:11:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1975- MITS Altair</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>256 bytes of memory, 2 MHz Intel 8080 chip, Cost $395—$495&nbsp;<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-09 20:13:49 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1981-IBM PC</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>First wide selling personal computer, 8088 Microchip, 29,000 transistors, 256 K RAM, 1 or 2 floppy disk drives&nbsp;<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-09 20:15:18 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1977-Apple computers</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Apple computers released Apple ii computer that was used in most schools.&nbsp;<br>First commercial computer with Graphic User Interface GUI and Mouse&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-09 20:17:07 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1990&#39;s</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Computers in most homes, Faster and less expensive, Windows 95 was 1st decent GUI&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-09 20:18:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>21&#39;st century</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Great Increase in speed, storage and memory, Networking and Internet Capabilities, CD Drives, Cell Phones &amp; Wireless Technology&nbsp;<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-04-09 20:20:18 UTC</pubDate>
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