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IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer to beat a reigning World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov, in a full chess match. The computer had played him before, losing 5/6 games in February 1996. June 2 Intel released Pentium MMX, 233 MHz version. August 6 After 18 months of losses Apple Computer was in serious financial trouble. Microsoft ...
Exited the computer business before being acquired by Ford Motor Company: Philips — Netherlands: 1953: 1991: Sold computer division to Digital Equipment Corporation [8] PolyMorphic Systems — United States: 1976: Unknown: Unknown: Poqet Computer Corporation — United States: 1989: 1992: Acquired by Fujitsu [9] Power Computing ...
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).
By 1990, Taiwanese companies manufactured 11% of the world's laptops. That percentage grew to 32% in 1996, 50% in 2000, 80% in 2007 and 94% in 2011. [ 4 ] The Taiwanese ODMs have since lost some market share to Chinese ODMs, but still manufactured 82.3% of the world's laptops in Q2 of 2019, according to IDC.
The cassette tape was a common low-cost and low-performance mass storage device for a generation of home computers. Home computers were a class of microcomputer that existed from 1977 to about 1995. During this time it made economic sense for manufacturers to make microcomputers aimed at the home user.
Software companies established in 1990 (1 C, 29 P) Pages in category "Computer companies established in 1990" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
On October 15, 1990, John Sculley (then Apple CEO) introduced the Classic at a press conference, announcing that pricing would start at $1,000 [11] and saying, "To reach new customers, we didn't just lower the prices of our existing products. We redesigned these computers from the ground up with the features customers have told us they value most."
Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the second company after Columbia Data Products [3] to legally reverse engineer the BIOS of the IBM Personal Computer. [4] [5] It rose to become the largest supplier of PC systems during the 1990s. The company was initially based in Harris County, Texas.