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The World’s First Laptop Weighed 24 Pounds and Had a Five Inch Screen, But It Changed Computers Forever
In April 1981, the floor of the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco was crowded with hobbyist tinkerers, engineers and ...
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Celebrating Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Programmer Who Saw a World that Wasn’t There Yet
In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...
The ancient Antikythera Mechanism acts like an astronomical calculator, but its full purpose remains a mystery.
From 1832, when she was 17, Ada’s remarkable mathematical abilities began to emerge, and her interest in mathematics dominated her life even after her marriage in 1835 to William King, 8th Baron King, ...
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