1878 – Willgodt T. Odhner Was
Granted a Patent for a Calculating Machine That Performed Multiplications by
Repeated Addition
The patent,
a modified and compact version of Gottfried von Leibniz’s stepped wheel, was
acquired and embodied in Brunsviga calculators that sold into the 1950s.
1969 – The first ever computer to computer
link was established on the ARPANET. UCLA student Charley Kline sent the
character l and o to Stanford. The connection crashed before he could finish
sending ‘login’. The Internet has been crashy right from the start.
1988 – Sega launched the Mega Drive console
in Japan. It would be released elsewhere in the world later as the ‘Genesis.’
2012 – Apple announced Scott Forstall would
leave the company in one year, and that retail head John Browett had left the
company as well.
2013 – William Lowe, Invertors
of the IBM PC Passes
If you
grew up in the 80’s, you knew what an IBM PC was. Even in the 90’s and 00’s,
the PC was what you had in the corner of the house to do homework on, surf the
internet, work out expenses and more. William C. Lowe was the man that brought
that all together. He joined IBM in 1962 and left in 1991. It was in 1981 that
the IBM PC debuted.
2013 – Motorola announced its modular phone
project called Project ARA. It would end up becoming Google’s project after
Google sold Motorola.
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