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2000-2009
Nintendo Wii
The Nintendo Wii was released on November 16, 2006 as a seventh generation console
in 2012 in its first quarter of sales, the Wii surpassed both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in sales
In December 2009, the console broke the sales record for a single month in the United States
Since the Nintendo GameCube did so well in sales, the early models of the Wii were fully backwards compatible with all games and most accessories of the GameCube
For reasons unknown to me both Japan and Europe discontinued the Wii as of October 20, 2013
At some point there were new releases in Nintendo's most popular franchises( Legend of Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, and (my personal favorite) Metroid)
Nintendo received third-party support from companies like Ubisoft, Sega, Square Enix, Activison Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Capcom
Certain games like Metroid Prime 1 and 2 and Pikmin 1 and 2 got a remake for the Wii with updated control scheme and replace the GameCube controller with the Wii remote in Japan only
The Wii also had games from the NES or Nintendo Entertainment System up to the Nintendo 64
On November 19, 2006, the Wii was released in North America for low, low price of $249.99 with 33 launch titles
The very first Wii software update caused a small bunch of launch units to become completely unusable
Source: Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii

x-History of ComputingHistory of Computing
x-1700-17991980-1999
Bill Gates!
Bill Gates was hired alongside Paul Allen by IBM to work on a operating system for a new computer. The program would later become DOS.
Allen has to leave because his gets infected with Hodgkin's disease, leaving Bill gates to work on it alone. Microsoft also has a new extension to it's MS-DOS program, it's called Widows
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At the wonderful age 31, he became the youngest billionaire up to that point. At the same time, he met his wife-to-be, Melinda French, at a Microsoft conference in New York.
In 1989, Gates founded Corbis, an archive of art and photography, from public and private collections. This company later became one of the largest collections of visual information in the world.
In 1990, investors anted to invests in IBM and Microsoft. But, the FTC required that IBM and Microsoft work together to divvy up the marketing for anticompetitive means.
1995, at a stunning grand total of 12.9 billion dollars, Bill Gates becomes the worlds richest man, at the same time, he introduced internet explorer with windows 95.
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Bibliography
http://www.computerhope.com/history/1980.htm
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bill+gates+1980&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIt8e4nPDVxwIVgzo-Ch1WUQ9e&biw=1366&bih=659#imgrc=ruvhJ8tINFmx3M%3A
http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2008/june/bill_gates/gates_timeline_04.html
https://www.google.com/search?q=windows&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAkQ_AUoA2oVChMIxqqBkPPVxwIVQhs-Ch1XowDr&biw=648&bih=609#imgrc=l0j2JvrZ8RZroM%3A
http://homecall-computer-repairs.co.uk/iereset.php

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x-1700-17991960-1979
Margaret Hamilton
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Margaret Hamilton was born on August 17th, 1936. She was born in Paoli, Indiana and she is still alive. Margaret is 79 years old. Margaret has a B.A. in mathematics from Earlham College. She graduated in 1958. She was going to go on get a PhD in abstract math, but she got offered to work on Apollo. She became the leader of a team that developed the flight software for Apollo missions. Her team created the building blocks for what became modern software engineering. Margaret's program proved to be very valuable when the software overrode a switch on the flight computer's priority processing system to a radar system because of a faulty operations script provided to the crew. The software written by Margaret's team allowed the Apollo 11 mission to complete the mission successfully. Margaret also developed new methods for building flight software and these methods were applied to Apollo software. The software that she developed was able to help which processes that it had to do where most important. It was able to help ensure that the landing functions. This accomplishment allowed NASA to be confident in going ahead with the moon landing.
Margaret also created founded and was the CEO of the business Hamilton Technologies Inc. (HTI). HTI is developed around the Universal Systems Language. She was the CEO of a company that she co-founded called Higher Order Software from 1976 to 1984.
In 1986, Maragaret was rewarded the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award from the Association for Women in Computing. In 2003, she was rewarded NASA Exceptional Space Art Award for scientific and technical contributions. In 2009, Margaret was rewarded the Outstanding Alumni Award from Earlham College.
Works Cited"Margaret Hamilton." Margaret Hamilton. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015."Margaret Hamilton (scientist)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015."NASA Office of Logic Design." About Margaret Hamilton. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015.Rothman, Lily. "Remembering the Apollo 11 Moon Landing With the Woman Who Made It Happen." Time. N.p., 20 July 2015. Web. 8 Sept. 2015.

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x-1700-17991940-1959
Harvard Mark I
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The Harvard Mark I is a nickname for the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC). This computer was conceptualized in November of 1937. The project was approved by Thomas Watson Sr. and funded in February of 1939. The Harvard Mark I was finally finished, and started computing on August 7th 1944.
The Mark 1 was made of switches, relays and, rotating shafts. It was used for a lot of different tasks; it contributed to the Manhattan project and other war related efforts.
Cohen, Bernard. "Harvard Mark 1." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 2006. Web. 08 Sept. 2015.
"The Mark I Computer at Harvard." The Mark I Computer at Harvard. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015
George Stibitz
George Robert Stibitz is internationally recognized as one of the of the fathers of the modern first digital computer. He was a Bell Labs researchers known for his work on the realization of the Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element in the 1930's and 40's
In November 1939, CNC(Complex Number Computer) was completed, in September 1940, Stibitz did a demonstration at a conference at Dartmouth College by using a teletype to send commands to the CNC in New York over telegraph lines. It was the first computing machine ever used remotely.
During the war he was moved to he National Defense Research Committee
In 1995 he died at the age of 90 in Hanover, New Hampshire
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x-1700-17991900-1939
The HP 200A Audio Oscillator
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Who: Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard
What: "An audio oscillator is an instrument that generates one pure tone or frequency at a time."
Why: HP oscillators were used to design, produce, and maintain telephones, stereos, radios and other audio equipment.
Where: Stanford University
Extra Info: Was priced at $54.40, where original oscillators were $200-$600. Used the light bulb to simplify the circuit and was able to make it more affordable. The helped regulate the output as well.
Sources:
http://www.ohio.edu/people/postr/bapix/HP200A_.jpg
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/earlyinstruments/0002/

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x-1700-17991800-1899
Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
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Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French entrepreneur who was born in Colmar, France on May 5, 1785. In 1819, he joined the war in the armies of Marchall Soult and performed many tedious calculations for trajectory of the weapons. This is where he got an idea to make an arithmometer. Although many people had made arithmometers before him, they were often not accurate and too expensive to use by the public. In the 1820's however, the industrial revolution had started and many factories had wanted to mass produce a calculator. In 1821, Charles submitted a sketch of his first calculating device to the Society of Encouragement in France. Over the years, numerous improvements were made and Charles won medals for his achievements, but he was overshadowed by other inventions for more efficient calculating devices. He later went on to found two insurance companies who used his calculating devices to be more efficient. These companies are Phoenix and Le Solei and they are still open to this day. He later died on March 12, 1870
Bibliography
"Charles Xavier Thomas." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015.
"History of Computers and Computing, Mechanical Calculators, 19th Century, Thomas De Colmar." History of Computers and Computing, Mechanical Calculators, 19th Century, Thomas De Colmar. History of Computers, n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015.

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Semen Nikolaevich Korsakov (1787-1853)
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Semen Korsakov was born on January 14, 1787 in Kherson, Ukraine. Korsakov participated in the Napoleonic wars with the Russian Army. Later he worked for the Russian Police in the statistics department. Through the Russian Government Korsakov earned the Order of St. Anna, and the Order of St. Vladimir. The Order of St. Anna was given to those who had a distinguished career in civil service or for distinguished service in the military. The Order of St. Vladimir was given to those who were part of the Russian Orthodox Church. Korsakov, while in the stats department at the Police Ministry, became curious to how one could use machinery to enhance natural intelligence. First to use punch cards to store information. Korsakov died December 1, 1853.
Korsakov's inventions "machines for the comparison of ideas":
"linear homeoscope with movable parts"
the flat homeoscope
"ideoscope"
"simple comparator"
Supposedly the first to use punch cards to store information.
Bibliography
"Semen Korsakov." Semen Korsakov. Computer Hope, n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2015.
"Semen Korsakov." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2015.

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x-2400 BC - 15991600 - 1699
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Binary Code
Binary code is essentially the most basic form of code in that it uses only the two numbers in the binary number system. 1 and 0
Ones and zeros are arranged in groups of 8, called bits. Bits are arranged in groups of 8 called bytes
1679 - History: He was looking to "convert logic's verbal statements into a purely mathematical one. He came across a Chinese text called "Book of Change"(translation) that used a type of binary. The text confirmed his idea that life could be simplified to a series of straightforward prepositions." He wrote a series of zeros and ones representing zeros as false/no and ones as true/yes. In our Visual Basic, these are called Boolean variables. Considering that binary is still used today, it could be said that Binary was wildly successful.
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"Binary Code." Binary Code. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2015.

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x-1700-17991980-1999
Bill Gates!
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Bill Gates was hired alongside Paul Allen by IBM to work on a operating system for a new computer. The program would later become DOS.
Allen has to leave because his gets infected with Hodgkin's disease, leaving Bill gates to work on it alone. Microsoft also has a new extension to it's MS-DOS program, it's called Widows