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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 ...
Spun off computer division as Canon Computer Systems: Celerity Computing — United States: 1983: 1988: Acquired by Floating Point Systems: Centurion Computer Corporation — United States: 1974: 1985: Exited the computer business: Chicony Electronics — Taiwan: 1988: 2000: Left the computer business; still active in peripheral business ...
Year–month Windows Apple BSD Linux Others 2000–01: 2000–02: Windows 2000 [48] Solaris 8 2000–03: FreeBSD 4.0: Red Hat Linux 6.2E: AtheOS BeOS R5: 2000–04: Pocket PC 2000: 2000–05: MenuetOS: 2000–06: Windows CE 3.0: OpenBSD 2.7: Plan 9 Third Edition [49] 2000–07: Windows 2000 Service Pack 1: OS/400 V4R5 2000–08: Debian 2.2 ...
The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project, an attempt to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems. The Computer Revolution/Timeline at Wikibooks "File:Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). ethw.org. 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-10-31
2001, Kenneth "Ken" Hall designed the Cobb grill, a charcoal briquette stove as a safer alternative to the paraffin stoves that cause many home fires in rural areas of South Africa. The grill was featured in the Time Magazine's best inventions of the year in 2001. [28] 2001, Engineer Graeme Wells created the oil-can guitar. [8]
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.
5G Cell Tower in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Internet in South Africa, one of the most technologically resourced countries on the African continent, is expanding.The internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) [1].za is regulated by the .za Domain Name Authority (.ZADNA) and was granted to South Africa by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1990.
Microsoft Corporation launches Windows Vista more than 5 years after their last major, new operating system, Windows XP, was released. June 5 Asus announces the first Asus Eee PC, launching the netbook category of mobile computers. [10] It initially ran Linux; later models also offered a choice of Windows. October 26 Apple launches Mac OS X ...