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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 ...
Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (Dartmouth College's DTSS for GE computers) EXEC 8 ( UNIVAC ) KDF9 Timesharing Director ( English Electric ) – an early, fully hardware secured, fully pre-emptive process switching, multi-programming operating system for KDF9 (originally announced in 1960)
Gateway, Inc., previously Gateway 2000, Inc., was an American computer company originally based in Iowa and South Dakota. Founded by Ted Waitt and Mike Hammond in 1985, the company developed, manufactured, supported, and marketed a wide range of personal computers , computer monitors , servers , and computer accessories.
Quanta Computer pioneered the contract manufacturing of laptops in 1988. 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]
Jef Raskin, who in 1979 envisioned and established the Macintosh project at Apple Computer, dies at the age of 61. April 29 Apple Computer releases Mac OS X Tiger (v10.4) for PowerPC-based Macs. May 25 Nokia announces the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, the first device running Maemo. May 26
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
Key home computers in the early part of the decade predominantly use processors developed in the 1970s. Versions of the 6502, first released in 1975, powered the Commodore 64, Apple II, BBC Micro, and Atari 8-bit computers. The 8-bit Zilog Z80 (1976) is at the core of the ZX Spectrum, MSX systems and many others.