2014 Event Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the Apple Macintosh; the computer had a 9-inch monochrome display, 128 KB of memory and a 3.5" slot for a floppy disk 2013 Event In the U.S., a computer problem shuts down the NASDAQ electronic stock exchange for three hours 2013 Event An Apple I computer is sold for $617,000 at auction 2013 Event Once the world's fastest computer, the IBM Roadrunner, was decommissioned; advances in chip design have surpassed its capabilities 2013 Event The group of hackers known as Anonymous, hacks into the U.S. Sentencing Commission website as a response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, and internet activist 2012 Event A temporary fix to the Internet Doomsday virus created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation expires, causing thousands of computer users across the globe to lose Internet access 2012 Event The Anonymous computer hacking group is credited with launching an attack on the United Kingdom Home Office 2012 Event IBM announces it is on the cusp of creating the world's first quantum computer 2011 Event Acting on a lawsuit filed by Apple, Inc., a court in Dusseldorf, Germany orders Samsung to stop selling its new tablet computer, Galaxy Tab 2011 Event The Financial Times finds computer hackers may have accessed details on Citigroup bank card customers 2011 Event All bullet trains in northern and central Japan were temporarily halted due a computer glitch; thousands of passengers are affected 2009 Event Eight Eastern Europeans are accused of stealing $9 million in a huge computer payroll scam 2007 Event Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone 2005 Event Apple Computer announces they will switch to Intel processors in 2006 2003 Death Adam Osborne, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation 2000 Death John W. Tukey, professor/computer theorist, The Practice of Data Analysis, dies at 85 1998 Event Apple discontinues developing Newton computer 1997 Event Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO 1997 Event Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc 1997 Event Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple Computer 1996 Death Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer, dies at 61 1996 Death Seymour Cray, computer designer, dies in auto accident at 71 1996 Death Tommy Rettig, actor (Lassie)/computer programmer (Clipper), dies at 54 1994 Death Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84 1992 Death John G Kemeny, U.S. computer pioneer (BASIC), dies 1992 Event Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic 1992 Event Vinson Pike fined 1000 pounds for distributing obscene computer pictures 1992 Death Grace Hopper, computer scientist, dies at 85 1991 Event Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic 1991 Event Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell 1990 Death An Wang, computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 of cancer 1990 Event AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch 1989 Event Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution 1989 Event U.S. computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus 1988 Death Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies 1988 Event Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage 1988 Event IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer 1988 Event 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York 1988 Event Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer 1987 Event Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City 1985 Event Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb 1985 Event STS-51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem 1984 Event STS-41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem 1984 Event Apple Computer unveils its Macintosh personal computer 1983 Event Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip) 1983 Event Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2) 1982 Event TIME's Man of the Year is a computer 1982 Event Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, and landscape display 1981 Event IBM-PC computer introduced 1981 Event Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded 1980 Event US's copyright law amended to include computer programs 1980 Event 1st consumer use of home banking by computer 1980 Event Apollo Computer Inc. incorporated 1979 Event CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service 1979 Event "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line 1978 Event 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward and Randy's CBBS, Chicago) 1977 Event 1st TRS-80 computer sold 1977 Event 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold 1977 Event Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered 1977 Event Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II 1977 Event HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands 1977 Event Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer 1976 Event Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer 1974 Event Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer 1973 Birthday Sergey Brin, born in Moscow, Soviet Union, computer scientist, Google co-founder, speaker, National Academy of Engineering inductee 1973 Birthday Larry Page, born in East Lansing, Michigan, computer scientist, Google co-founder, named a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum 1970 Event IBM announces System 370 computer 1970 Birthday John Carmack, born in Roeland Park, Kansas, game programmer, co-founder of id Software, lead programmer for computer games, 'Quake', 'Doom', 'Commander Keen' series 1970 Event 1st computer chess tournament 1970 Event Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali and Marciano 1964 Birthday Kris Tschetter, born in Detroit, Michigan, LPGA golfer, 1992 Northgate Computer 1964 Event 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) 1963 Birthday Bruce Schneier, born in America, computer security specialist, cryptographer, writer, founder, BT Counterpane, books include, 'Practical Cryptography', 'Schneier on Security' 1962 Death Howard Engstrom, Boston, a designer of UNIVAC computer, dies at 59 1961 Birthday Richard Allen Garriott, born in Cambridge, England, computer game designer, Origin 1960 Birthday Jaron Lanier, born in New York City, New York, visual artist, author, computer scientist, popularized the term, 'virtual reality' 1959 Birthday Cindy Rarick, born in Glenwood, Minnesota, LPGA golfer, 1991 Northgate Computer 1956 Event Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory 1955 Birthday Tim Berners-Lee, born in London, England, computer scientist, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, proposed in March, 1989 1955 Birthday Steve Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer 1954 Event 1st FORTRAN computer program run 1954 Birthday Michael W. Butler, computer programmer, created TODAY program 1953 Birthday Richard Stallman, born in New York City, New York, computer programmer, software freedom activist, set up the Free Software Foundation 1951 Birthday Esther Dyson, born in Zurich, Switzerland, computer publisher, Release 1.0 1951 Event 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau 1951 Event Jay Forrester patents computer core memory 1948 Event 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I 1947 Birthday Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer, Amstrad 1947 Birthday Colin Sanders, British computer engineer, Solid State Logic 1946 Event ENIAC, U.S. 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert 1945 Event 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 Birthday 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 Birthday Peter Rigby, CEO, Specialist Computer Holdings 1942 Birthday Charles Dodge, born in Ames, Iowa, composer, electronic music, computer music genres, studied with Gunther Schuller, Darius Milhaud 1940 Birthday Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor, ZX Spectrum 1939 Birthday Adam Osborne, born in Thailand, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation 1939 Birthday Peter Struycken, statues/computer expert/teacher 1937 Birthday Larry Boxx, founder, Land B Computer Serv 1934 Birthday Niklaus Wirth, born in Switzerland, computer programmer and inventor, PASCAL 1927 Birthday Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist, MIT 1925 Birthday Seymour Cray, inventor, Cray I computer 1924 Birthday John Backus, inventor, FORTRAN computer language 1912 Birthday Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory, Turing Machine 1910 Birthday Charlotte Auerbach, computer Pioneer/Mathematician 1906 Birthday Grace Murray Hopper, computer innovator 1905 Birthday Laszlo Kalmar, born in Hungary, mathematician, discovered mathematical logic, founder, theoretical computer science in Hungary 1902 Birthday Howard T. Engstrom, born in Boston, computer designer, UNIVAC 1889 Event 1st Computer patented 1833 Event Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
