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Severe Tire Damage made the first live music performance on the Internet, using MBone technology. July 27, 1993 Microsoft released the Windows NT 3.1 operating system that supported 32-bit programs. December 10, 1993 Doom was released by id Software.
The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based original design manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Quanta Computer pioneered the contract manufacturing of laptops in 1988. By 1990, Taiwanese companies manufactured 11% of the world's laptops.
Cambridge Computer. Cambridge Z88; Camputers Lynx; CAP computer; Commodore Amiga 600 (A600) - Assembled in a former Timex factory in Scotland. Commodore Amiga 1200 - Assembled in a former Timex factory in Scotland. Compukit UK101; Dragon 32/64; Elliott Brothers (computer company) Enterprise (computer) Ferranti MRT; Flex machine; Gemini ...
Sold computer division to Control Data Corporation [6] BiiN — United States: 1982: 1990: Liquidation: Billings Computer — United States: 1977: Unknown: Unknown: Blue Chip Electronics — United States: 1981: 1989: Acquired by Capewood Limited: Burroughs Corporation — United States: 1953: 1986: Merged with Sperry Corporation to form ...
R2E CCMC Portal laptop. The portable microcomputer "Portal", of the French company R2E Micral CCMC, officially appeared in September 1980 at the Sicob show in Paris.The Portal was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the studies and developments department of the French firm R2E Micral in 1980 at the request of the company CCMC specializing in payroll and accounting.
Date Location Event January United Kingdom (UK) Sinclair ZX80 was released for under £100.: 22 May Japan: The game Pac-Man was released. [1]June United States (US) Commodore released the VIC-20, which had 3.5 KB of usable memory and was based on the MOS Technology 6502 processor.
Third-generation computers were offered well into the 1990s; for example the IBM ES9000 9X2 announced April 1994 [30] used 5,960 ECL chips to make a 10-way processor. [31] Other third-generation computers offered in the 1990s included the DEC VAX 9000 (1989), built from ECL gate arrays and custom chips, [32] and the Cray T90 (1995).
International Computers Limited (ICL) was a British computer hardware, computer software and computer services company that operated from 1968 until 2002. It was formed through a merger of International Computers and Tabulators (ICT), English Electric Computers (EEC) and Elliott Automation in 1968.