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2007 Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone

2005 Apple Computer announces they will switch to Intel processors in 2006

2003 Adam Osborne, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation

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 U.S. 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

1955 Steve Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer

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

1944 Paul Lansky, born in New York, composer, electronic music, computer music language pioneer, studied with George Perle and Milton Babbitt, professor of music at Princeton University

1943 Peter Rigby, CEO, Specialist Computer Holdings

1942 Charles Dodge, born in Ames, Iowa, composer, electronic music, computer music genres, studied with Gunther Schuller, Darius Milhaud

1940 Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor, ZX Spectrum

1939 Adam Osborne, born in Thailand, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation

1939 Peter Struycken, statues/computer expert/teacher

1937 Larry Boxx, founder, Land B Computer Serv

1934 Niklaus Wirth, born in Switzerland, computer programmer and 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

1905 Laszlo Kalmar, born in Hungary, mathematician, discovered mathematical logic, founder, theoretical computer science in Hungary

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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