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 * Bill Gates**

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In 1975 Bill Gates left Harvard University to form the Program Microsoft with his good friend Paul Allen. Bill Gates began creating computers at the age of 13.
== He started making a version of a programming language BASIC. After he left Harvard he began working with the largest computer company in the world; Microsoft Corporation. Before the company was named Microsoft it was first microcomputer for short then people Recognized it by Microsoft. Bill Gates is the Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporations. This company was founded in 1975 my Gates and Paul Allen it is now the WORLDS largest computer software company. In 1972 Bill Gates and paul Allen created Traf-O-Data, a company that sold computers so you can analyze traffic data. Gates saw the personal computer as the future. In 1975 income was about $16,000 with only 3 employees. The next were is was $22,000 with 7 employees. Both years posted losses. Many companies would have probably quit. In the mid 70s Gates believed that desks would now hold computers as tools. Bill Gates hires workers who have drive and are bright and intelligent employees so that helps with the success of his business. Microsoft has a 600% growth rate. == == Bill Gates is the Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporations. This company was founded in 1975 my Gates and Paul Allen it is now the WORLDS largest computer software company. In 1972 Bill Gates and paul Allen created Traf-O-Data, a company that sold computers so you can analyze traffic data. Gates saw the personal computer as the future. In 1975 income was about $16,000 with only 3 employees. The next were is was $22,000 with 7 employees. Both years posted losses. Many companies would have probably quit. In the mid 70s Gates believed that desks would now hold computers as tools. Bill Gates hires workers who have drive and are bright and intelligent employee at helps with the success of his business. Microsoft has a 600% growth rate.==

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==In early 1970s Dennis realized that in order to make things easier, less expensive, and exessable to many people he would have to make a device that could move things around from disk to screen and back. In 1971 the first edition of the “unix PROGRAMMER MANUAL” == = The computer programming language developed in the 1970s, by Dennis M. Ritchie. It was designed to be used as a minimalist language to be used at writing operations. Dennis Ritchie graduated from Harvard University with a degree in physics and applied =

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**Ray Tomilson** **﻿**

==Back in 1971, ray Tomlinson was a young engineer. He got interested in working with messages when he found a way to send a message from one computer to another, now we do this regularly and it is called an E-mail. Ray Tomlison Chose the @ symbol to tell which people were “at” what computer. Actually the first E-mail was sent because it seemed like a neat idea, not because someone asked for it or wanted it. == == The two computers that the emails were sent on were literally “side by side”. The first email said QWERTYUIOP or something very similar. This was a huge break through because there had been Single-computer electronic mail since at least the beginning of the 1960s but now you can send back and forth and add to what has already been sent. ==

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 n 1974 Steve jobs stated his career as a video game designer for Atari which was mainly to save for a trip to India.

Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is the former CEO of apple computer which he founded in 1976.he and his colleague, Steve Wozniak, came up with the idea for games for a telephone. Jobs were actually not very interested in creating electronics. He was more interested in engineering but was nowhere as good as Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak had to sell some of their prized possessions to raise enough money to start their company. With Wozniak’s engineering skills and jobs electronic knack, they were a perfect pair.

Their company was started in jobs garage in 1975. Jobs and Wozniak dismantled fully assembled computers and remade them with better graphics and programs. The goal of their project was to make a portable table top computer. In 1976 their first computer went on the market for $666. They called this company Apple, named after jobs favorite fruit. This was one of the first computers that had video interface and could load external programs.



In 1977, Apple II was introduced. Jobs created a way for people to create their own applications for the computer. Applications vary from stocks to games. In 1979, Jobs started work on a personal computer called Lisa that would change technology forever. He later called it the Macintosh, or The Mac. In Apple II, the first spreadsheet was introduced to the world.

//“For something this complicated, it’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”//

//Steve Jobs// In 1975 Bill Gates left Harvard University to form the Program Microsoft with his good friend Paul Allen. Bill Gates began creating computers at the age of 13. [|http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/a/Bill_Gates.htm] Bill gates started making a version of a programming Language BASIC. After he left Harvard he began working With the largest computer company in the world; Microsoft Corporation. Before the company was named Microsoft it was first microcomputer for short then people Recognized it by Microsoft. [|http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/bill-gates.htm]

Bill Gates is the Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporations. This company was founded in 1975 my Gates and Paul Allen it is now the WORLDS largest computer software company. In 1972 Bill Gates and paul Allen created Traf-O-Data, a company that sold computers so you can analyze traffic data. Gates saw the personal computer as the future. In 1975 income was about $16,000 with only 3 employees. The next were is was $22,000 with 7 employees. Both years posted losses. Many companies would have probably quit. In the mid 70s Gates believed that desks would now hold computers as tools. Bill Gates hires workers who have drive and are bright and intelligent employees so that helps with the success of his business. Microsoft has a 600% growth rate. http:/ www.ltbn.com/hall_of_fame/Gates.html
 * Bill Gates **

In early 1970s Dennis realized that in order to make things easier, less expensive, and exessable to many people he would have to make a device that could move things around from disk to screen and back. In 1971 the first edition of the “unix PROGRAMMER MANUAL” Dennis Ritchie graduated from Harvard University with a degree in physics and applied in math.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Dennis Richie **

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The “Floppy”

30 years ago, the floppy disk was the most popular means of transferring data in the 1970’s. The “floppy” was introduced by IMB engineers, and mainly Alan Shugart. The “floppy disk” got its name from its flexibility when bended. The first floppy was an 8 inch disk coated with magnetic iron oxide. The data was written to and read from the disk’s surface. Later, in 1997 the floppy was upgraded to a 5 ¼” flexible disk drive that was also designed by Alan Shugart. Overnight, more uses for the floppy were discovered, making it the hot new program and file storage medium.



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‍Robert Metcalfe
Robert Metcalfe is the inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com. He went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an electrical engineering student. He paid for college by working as a programmer at night, from 12:00am to 8:00am. After graduating he enrolled as a graduate student in applied mathematics. Robert Metcalfe spent his free time working in a computer lab at M.I.T. he was later assigned the task of building an interface allowing early internet servers to talk to each other.

Robert Metcalfe completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Harvard University. He was hired to join Xero’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). At a friend’s house he saw a paper with details about the works of Aloha Net in Hawaii. Metcalfe was inspired by the network and flew to Hawaii to study it. In 1973 Robert Metcalfe invented Ethernet. Ethernet allowed computers to send packages of information and avoid collisions with other packages.

In 1979 Robert Metcalfe left PARC to launch 3Com. 3Com was a firm devoted to selling versions of Ethernet and other networking products. When the company went public in 1984 he became a millionaire. He continued to work at the same pace as he did in college and assembled a group of engineers known as Metcalfe’s Midnight Pizza Team.

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Jack Kilby was a man whose insights and profession accomplishment, has changed the world. “What we didn’t realize then was that the integrated circuit would reduce the cost of electronic function by a factor of a million to one, nothing had ever done that for anything before”, said Jack Kilby. He invented the monolithic integrated circuit- the microchip- laid the conceptual and technical foundation for the entire field of microelectronics. Later, in 1970 he was awarded the National Medal of Science, for this magnificent invention.
 * The Chip that Jack Built **

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Rob Barnaby
==Rob Barnaby invented the WordStar word processer. The WordStar word processor was the first software program made for microcomputers. Word processing is the manipulation of the computers generated data. This includes storing editing creating and retrieving. This was the best selling program in the late 1970s and the early 1980s. it came out in 1978. He also started MicroPro international Inc. in 1978.==

James Fergason
===Dr. James L. Fergason was recognized around the world as a pioneer of modern liquid crystal technology. His research in liquid crystal technology resulted in the introduction to many new leveraged liquid crystal technologies including: optical, medical, and safety devices, quartz watches, LCD displays, and much more.=== ===From 1966 to 1970 Dr. Fergason was associative director at Kent State University. Dr. Fergason and the other people at Kent State were trying to use liquid crystals for thermal mapping to screen for breast cancer. He published a paper that defined approaches for making nematic LCD’s, hundreds of inventors cited that paper and did research after him. That let the technology evolve thanks to the other inventors. Now LCD’s are in cellular phones, MP3 entertainment, and are used by Motorola, Qualcomm, AT&T, Verizon, Apple, HP, Dell, and movie and television industries. This would not be possible without Dr. James Fergason===

Steve Wonzniak
===Steve Wonzniak was literally Apple Computer and deserved to be called Apple’s number one employee. In 1977 he single handedly designed and built the Apple II. The Apple II is what sparked the beginning of personal computers and is what allowed a new generation of computers to emerge.=== ===Dr. James L. Fergason was recognized around the world as a pioneer of modern liquid crystal technology. His research in liquid crystal technology resulted in the introduction to many new leveraged liquid crystal technologies including: optical, medical, and safety devices, quartz watches, LCD displays, and much more.=== ===From 1966 to 1970 Dr. Fergason was associative director at Kent State University. Dr. Fergason and the other people at Kent State were trying to use liquid crystals for thermal mapping to screen for breast cancer. He published a paper that defined approaches for making nematic LCD’s, hundreds of inventors cited that paper and did research after him. That let the technology evolve thanks to the other inventors. Now LCD’s are in cellular phones, MP3 entertainment, and are used by Motorola, Qualcomm, AT&T, Verizon, Apple, HP, Dell, and movie and television industries. This would not be possible without Dr. James Fergason===

Steve Wonzniak was literally Apple Computer and deserved to be called Apple’s number one employee. In 1977 he single handedly designed and built the Apple II. The Apple II is
===Steve Wonzniak built and designed the Apple I computer at the Home Brew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California. Steve Jobs saw its commercial potential and together they formed the Apple Computers, which sold around 600 Apple’s at a price of $666 each. Steve went on to design the Apple II, which was unveiled at the West Coast Faire in 1977. The Apple II was the first commercially successful personal computer, and by 1980 Apple Computers was worth $1.2 billion.===

In the 1970s people were really laid back and looked at life in a positive way. You could say that most people were easy going. The classic “70’s” look was a loose fitted v-neck, cotton shirt, and comfortable bell bottom jeans. As the decade began to progress into its middle year’s bright colors and patterns came into style. It was not unusual for people of all ages to be seen wearing glittery jumpsuits and “bling”. Dresses came in mini, midi, and maxi and the men wore plaid suits. Platform shoes were in for both genders!! Even though this style was found in clothing first people decided to start decoration their home like this as well by putting bright colors and geometrics shapes on the walls. The people of the 70s listened to pop, southern rock, heavy metal, and of course DISCO!! Some other trends that people began seeing were CB radios, were drivers could communicate with one another very easily. The 1970s was a crazy, unique, fresh and groovy decade!! []