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The First Computer “Bug”
September 9, 1945 Operators of the Harvard Mark II find a moth trapped in relay #70 in panel F. The bug is taped to their troubleshooting log where it was written, “First actual case of bug being found”. This was not the first use of the term “bug” for computer problems, but this was the…
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Commercial Computer Mouse Introduced
April 27, 1981 Xerox introduces the Xerox 8010 Star Information System, the first commercial system utilizing a computer mouse, among other now commonplace technologies. The 8010 was geared towards business and was not a commercial success, therefore the mouse remained in relative obscurity until the Apple Lisa, but more prominently the Apple Macintosh, brought the mouse into…
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Personal Computer “Man of the Year”
December 26, 1982 Time Magazine awards its “Man of the Year” award to the personal computer, calling it “Machine of the Year,” the first non-human to receive the award since its creation in 1927. Describing the personal computer as 1982’s “greatest influence for good or evil,” the article titled “The Computer Moves In,” recognizes that…
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Personal Computer “Man of the Year”
December 26, 1982 Time Magazine awards its “Man of the Year” award to the personal computer, calling it “Machine of the Year,” the first non-human to receive the award since its creation in 1927. Describing the personal computer as 1982’s “greatest influence for good or evil,” the article titled “The Computer Moves In,” recognizes that…
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Steve Jobs’ NeXT Computer
October 12, 1988 Hailed by Steve Jobs as a computer “five years ahead of its time”, NeXT, Inc. introduces their NeXT Computer. Due to its cube-shaped case, the computer was often referred to as “The Cube” or “The NeXT Cube”, which led to the subsequent model offically being named “NeXTcube“. The new computer introduced several…
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The First Computer “Bug”
September 9, 1945 Operators of the Harvard Mark II find a moth trapped in relay #70 in panel F. The bug is taped to their troubleshooting log where it was written, “First actual case of bug being found”. This was not the first use of the term “bug” for computer problems, but this was the…
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Last IBM “Stretch” Computer Shut Down
September 5, 1980 The last IBM 7030 “Stretch” mainframe in active use is decommissioned at Brigham Young University. The first Stretch was was delivered to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1961, giving the model almost 20 years of operational service. The Stretch was famous for many things, but perhaps most notably it was the first…
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Will The Computer 'Hardware Renaissance' Come To Puerto Rico? Check this articl…
Will The Computer 'Hardware Renaissance' Come To Puerto Rico? Check this article! What do you think? Will The Computer 'Hardware Renaissance' Come To Puerto Rico?onforb.es@giorodriguez Computer hardware startups — again — are poised for major investment. Why Puerto Rican companies might have an edge It's Thursday night, and I'm looking at an email from the…
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Will The Computer 'Hardware Renaissance' Come To Puerto Rico? Check this articl…
Will The Computer 'Hardware Renaissance' Come To Puerto Rico? Check this article! What do you think? Will The Computer 'Hardware Renaissance' Come To Puerto Rico?onforb.es@giorodriguez Computer hardware startups — again — are poised for major investment. Why Puerto Rican companies might have an edge It's Thursday night, and I'm looking at an email from the…
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The First Mass-Produced Computer
July 2, 1953 IBM announced its 650 series of computers, the first mass-produced computer, and the dominant computer of the decade. The IBM 650 stored information on a rotating magnetic drum and received it on programmed punch cards. Its memory stored numbers with up to 10 decimal digits. This Day in Tech History Tech History…