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While doing my project I have learned many things about computers, how they are made and how they are progressing.

The first computer was made by Charles Babbage in 1822. Although Charles Babbage was not successful in his attempt at the first computer the Difference Engine because he did not have the money to pay for it, he never gave up. Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine was put in the London Science Museum in June of 1991, and that is where it sets today. Charles then made the Analytical Engine in 1837 but was again not successful due to funding purposes.

The first digital computer was mad by John Vincent Atanasoff while he was still in school at Cliff Bury, he graduated in 1937. John still continues to work on his computer in 1942 while he was at collage in Iowa State College. When John finished the first digital computer he called it the ABC which stands for the Atanasoff-Berry Computer after himself. John Vincent’s ABC computer used vacuum tubes and was capable computing binary math.  In October of 1973 the U.S. Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed that the ENIAC that was said to be made by Eckert and Mauchly  was an invalid patent and that Atanasoff was the original inventor of the first digital computer.

The first lap top or portable computer was made in 1975 by Adam Osborne. The first computer was named the Osborne after Adam Osborne, the computer weighed 55 pounds, that seems like a huge computer compared to the small computers we have today. The first reasonable portable computer was released in 1981 and was also developed by Adam Osborne it weighed 24.5 pounds which still seems big to us. The first portable computer or laptop cost $179 dollars in the United States.