2007 Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone
2005 Apple Computer announces they will switch to Intel processors in 2006
2000 John W. Tukey, professor/computer theorist, The Practice of Data Analysis, dies at 85
1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer
1997 Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO
1997 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
1997 Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple Computer
1996 Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer, dies at 61
1996 Seymour Cray, computer designer, dies in auto accident at 71
1996 Tommy Rettig, actor (Lassie)/computer programmer (Clipper), dies at 54
1994 Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
1992 John G Kemeny, U.S. computer pioneer (BASIC), dies
1992 Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1992 Vinson Pike fined 1000 pounds for distributing obscene computer pictures
1992 Grace Hopper, computer scientist, dies at 85
1991 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1991 Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell
1990 An Wang, computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 of cancer
1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
1989 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
1989 US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
1988 Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies
1988 Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
1988 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
1988 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York
1988 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
1985 Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb
1985 STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
1984 STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem
1984 Apple Computer unveils its Macintosh personal computer
1983 Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
1983 Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
1982 TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
1982 Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, and landscape display
1981 IBM-PC computer introduced
1981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
1980 US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
1980 1st consumer use of home banking by computer
1980 Apollo Computer Inc. incorporated
1979 CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service
1979 "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1978 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward and Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
1977 1st TRS-80 computer sold
1977 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1977 Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale
1977 HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands
1977 Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer
1976 Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer
1974 Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer
1971 Donald Wolf, computer game creator
1970 IBM announces System 370 computer
1970 1st computer chess tournament
1970 Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali and Marciano
1964 Kris Tschetter, born in Detroit, Michigan, LPGA golfer, 1992 Northgate Computer
1964 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
1962 Howard Engstrom, Boston, a designer of Univac computer, dies at 59
1961 Richard Allen Garriott, born in Cambridge, England, computer game designer, Origin
1959 Cindy Rarick, born in Glenwood, Minnesota, LPGA golfer, 1991 Northgate Computer
1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run
1954 Michael W. Butler, computer programmer, created TODAY program
1951 Esther Dyson, born in Zurich, Switzerland, computer publisher, Release 1.0
1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
1947 Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer, Amstrad
1947 Colin Sanders, British computer engineer, Solid State Logic
1946 ENIAC, U.S. 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert
1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log
1943 Peter Rigby, CEO, Specialist Computer Holdings
1940 Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor, ZX Spectrum
1939 Peter Struycken, statues/computer expert/teacher
1937 Larry Boxx, founder, Land B Computer Serv
1934 Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor, PASCAL
1927 Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist, MIT
1925 Seymour Cray, inventor, Cray I computer
1924 John Backus, inventor, FORTRAN computer language
1912 Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory, Turing Machine
1910 Charlotte Auerbach, computer Pioneer/Mathematician
1906 Grace Murray Hopper, computer innovator
1902 Howard T. Engstrom, born in Boston, computer designer, Univac
1889 1st Computer patented
1833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
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