Microsoft’s co-founder and legendary figure, Bill Gates first tried his fingers at programming at the age of 15, in November1970, more precisely on the 18th of this month, at Lakeside School in Seattle.
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The first written mention of Intel 4004, a 4-bit CPU, was made (in the magazine called Electronic News ) on 15 November 1971.
Then called Legend, today’s leading computer manufacturer Lenovo was founded by eleven engineers in Beijing on 1 November 1984. In 2012 Lenovo beat former world leader Hewlett-Packard by volume of unit sales.
The first online message in history was transmitted over the ARPANET at 10.20 in the evening on 29 November 1969.
Germany’s leading electro-technological company, Siemens was founded by the inventor and entrepreneur Ernst Werner von Siemens (1816-1892) 166 years ago, on 1 October 1847.
Mac OS 9, the final major variant of the Apple Classic Mac operation system was released on 23 October 1999.
The National Museum of Computing in the UK is planning to restore, and set at work one of the four existing machines of the ICT 1301 business computers manufactured in 1960.
John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist, inventor, the father of the first digital computer was born on 4 October 1903 in a family of Bulgarian immigrants in Hamilton, New York State.
Sponsored by Google UK, a new gallery, “Women in Computing” has been opened at the National Museum of Computing in Britain.
Only 17 months after its release, further development work on Apple’s first computer, the Apple I was discontinued on 30 September 1977.