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    Hewlett and Packard founded Hewlett-Packard in 1939 in Palo Alto, California to test building computers. In 1940, George Stibitz demonstrated remote calculations on his calculator at a conference, surprising the audience. In 1941, Konrad Zuse finished the Z3, one of the earliest computers independent of other developments, using floating point binary arithmetic. The British also completed the first Bombe machine to decrypt Nazi communications based on Alan Turing's work. Between 1939 and 1942, John Atanasoff and Cliff Berry built the ABC computer at Iowa State College after creating a prototype in 1939. In 1943, Project Whirlwind began at MIT to build a flight simulator for the Navy but later shifted to building a

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    Hewlett and Packard founded Hewlett-Packard in 1939 in Palo Alto, California to test building computers. In 1940, George Stibitz demonstrated remote calculations on his calculator at a conference, surprising the audience. In 1941, Konrad Zuse finished the Z3, one of the earliest computers independent of other developments, using floating point binary arithmetic. The British also completed the first Bombe machine to decrypt Nazi communications based on Alan Turing's work. Between 1939 and 1942, John Atanasoff and Cliff Berry built the ABC computer at Iowa State College after creating a prototype in 1939. In 1943, Project Whirlwind began at MIT to build a flight simulator for the Navy but later shifted to building a

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    Hewlett and Packard founded Hewlett-Packard in 1939 in Palo Alto, California to test building computers. In 1940, George Stibitz demonstrated remote calculations on his calculator at a conference, surprising the audience. In 1941, Konrad Zuse finished the Z3, one of the earliest computers independent of other developments, using floating point binary arithmetic. The British also completed the first Bombe machine to decrypt Nazi communications based on Alan Turing's work. Between 1939 and 1942, John Atanasoff and Cliff Berry built the ABC computer at Iowa State College after creating a prototype in 1939. In 1943, Project Whirlwind began at MIT to build a flight simulator for the Navy but later shifted to building a

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    Computer history

    By Eric haddock

    1939
    David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard
    in a Palo Alto California garage. The first started testing
    to see if they could make a computer

    1940
    In 1939 Telephone Laboratories completed this
    calculator designed by George Stibitz. In 1940
    Stibitz showed at American Mathematical Society
    conference held at Dartmouth College. Stibitz
    stunned the group by calculations remotely

    1941
    Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer. The Z3 was an
    early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse
    working in complete isolation from developments
    elsewhere. The Z3 used floating point binary arithmetic
    and had a 22-bit word length. The original Z3was
    The first Bombe is completed. Based partly on the design
    of
    . the Polish a mechanical means of decrypting Nazi
    military communications the British Bombe design was
    greatly influenced by the work of computer pioneer Alan
    Turing and others. Together they dramatically improved the
    intelligence gathering and processing capabilities of Allied

    1942
    The Atanasoff-Berry computer After successfully making
    a proof-of-concept prototype in 1939, Atanasoff received
    money to build the whole machine. Built at Iowa State
    College the ABC was designed and built by John Vincent
    Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry between
    1939 and 1942.

    1943
    Project Whirlwind begins. During World War II, the U.S.
    Navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of
    Technology to building a flight simulator to train bomber
    crews. The team first built a large computer but found
    it hard and difficult . After designers saw the ENIAC
    computer they decided on building a digital computer.
    By the time the Whirlwind was completed in 1951 the
    Navy had lost interest in the project, though the U.S. Air
    Force would eventually support the project which would
    the design of the SAGE program

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