1975 – Steve Wozniak built the first
prototype of the Apple I, the first computer to show letter on the screen as
you typed them.
1992 – Silicon Graphics and MIPS Merge
Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) and
MIPS Computer Systems merged in a stock swap valued at $333 million. SGI
experienced a number of financial difficulties, leading to industry speculation
about the future of the computer graphics software and hardware company that
pioneered a number of techniques in widespread use. MIPS, founded by Stanford
University Engineering School Dean John Hennessy, developed high-speed computer
chips making use of reduced instruction set computing technology, which seeks to
improve speed by simplifying the transmission of information within a computer
on April 1, 2009, SGI filed for bankruptcy and was acquired by Rackable Systems
a few weeks later.
1995 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis docked
with the space station Mir, the first-ever docking of a Shuttle to a Space
Station.
2000 – The ASCI White
IBM unveiled the ASCI White- their
fastest computer yet. This supercomputer was based on IBM’s commercial RS/6000
SP computer. 512 computers were connected to make this supercomputer over 8
million processors, 5 Terabytes of memory and 160 TB of disk storage.
The
computer was completed on this day in New York, and would go on-line on August
15, 2001 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
2007 – The Phone That Changed Everything
Nearly 6 months after it was introduced, Apple’s highly-anticipated iPhone goes on sale. Generally downplayed by Old Word Technology pundits after its introduction, the iPhone was greeted by long lines of buyers around the country on that first day. Quickly becoming an overnight phenomenon, one million iPhones were sold in only 74 days. Since those early days, the ensuring iPhone models have continued to set sales records and have completely changed not only the smartphone and technology industries, but the world as well.
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