1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial
hydroelectric power plant began operation on the Fox River in Appleton,
Wisconsin.
1889 – IBM incorporated –
Bundy Manufacturing
The
Bundy Manufacturing co., a maker of time recording equipment, is incorporated
in Binghamton, N.Y. Willard L Bundy created a new type of timeclock for
business. Bundy Manufacturing co. Bundy was acquired by the
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, Inc. (C-T-R) in 1911. Thirteen years
later, the name would change one more time to International Business Machines
(IBM).
1941 – Mauchly Writes Atansasoff
Suggesting Cooperative Work
During
the trial to decide who would receive credit for designing the first electronic
computer, John Atanasoff’s lawyer, Mr. Halladay finally persuaded John Mauchly
to confirm several key points.
One such point was that on September 30th, 1941,
Mauchly had written to Dr. Atanasoff, co-designer of the Atanasoff-Berry
Computer, suggesting a cooperative effort. Mauchly was considering the
development of a computer and had asked Atanasoff if he had any objection to
the use of his comcepts.
The judge would eventually rule in favor of Dr. Atanasoff.
1954 – The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine,
was commissioned at Groton, CT.
1980 – Ethernet is Drafted
Digital,
Intel, and Xerox release version 1.0 of the Ethernet specification, known as
the Blue Book. Since that time, Ethernet has evolved into the de facto
networking standard for local area networks (LAN) in business and in the home.
1988 – IBM Announces Shipment
of 3 Milionth PS/2 Personal Computer
The PS/2
was IBM’s follow-on computer to its PC, PC/XT, and PC/AT machines. The PS/2
used the Micro Channel Architecture, a bus format incompatible with IBM’s open
ISA standard adopted by clone makers.
IBM had introduced its PS/2 machines just the year before,
making the 3 ½-inch floppy disk drive and video graphics array standard for IBM
computers and compatibles. PS/2 were the first IBM computers to use Intel’s
80386 chip and IBM released a new operating system, OS/2 , at the same time,
allowing the use of a mouse with IBM computers for the first time.
2014 – Microsoft announced its next operating system
would be called Windows 10, not windows 9 and would arrive sometime in 2015.
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