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 Atanasoff 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 concepts.
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 Millionth 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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