History+&+Development+of+Microcomputers

A: hi!

J: hello! :D

A: The [|abacus], which emerged about 5,000 years ago in Asia Minor and is still in use today, may be considered the first computer.

J: The earliest models often sold as kits to be assembled by the user, and came with as little as 256 [|bytes] of [|RAM], and no [|input/output] devices other than indicator lights and switches  A: Abacus is invented in Babylonia in 3000 BC. The **Antikythera Device**, a bronze mechanical lunar month calculator, is constructed in Greece in 80 AD http://www.warbaby.com/FG_test/Timeline.html

A: [| http://www.pc-history.org/] Every thing on here with pictures

J: everything im finding is during like the 1947s haha like: Three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories, William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen demonstrate their new invention of the point-contact transistor amplifier. December 1947

A: Webster's Dictionary defines "computer" as any programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data.

A: [| http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr] more computers with pictures

J: http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/comphist/comphist.htm this has a timeline from 1947-1970

A:http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm 1936-1985 timeline

A: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm Stufffff =0

J: here's another site :) http://www.vikingwaters.com/htmlpages/PCHist.htm