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Micro Electronic Era
 
Into the 1970's
•1971-- The floppy disk is introduced.•1972 -- Cray Research is founded.•1972 -- Pocket Calculator is introduced.
 
Microprocessors - 1971
•A
microprocessor 
-- also knownas a
CPU
or central processingunit -- is a complete computationengine that is fabricated on asingle chip.•The first microprocessor was theIntel 4004, introduced in 1971.•The 4004 was not very powerful-- all it could do was add andsubtract, and it could only do that4
bits
at a time. But it wasamazing that everything was onone chip.
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