1908 – Scottish electrical engineer, Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, published a brief letter in the journal Nature, describing the journal Nature, describing the essential of making and receiving television images. He described using an electron gun in the neck of a cathode-ray tube to shoot electrons towards the flat end of the tube, which was coated with light-emitting phosphor. Others like Farnsworth and Baird would make just such devices years later.
1979 – Microsoft Introduces BASIC for 8086
In use at the time by over 200,000 computers with the Z80 and 8088 processors, Microsoft BASIC is introduced for the 8086 16-bit microprocessor. By being one of the first to offer a version of the BASIC programming language for a 16-bit processor and making it compatible with their 8-bit versions of BASIC, Microsoft helped move forward 16-bit computing. But perhaps more importantly, by developing for the 8086 processor, they soon formed a relationship with Seattle Computer Products, one of the first companies building computers with an 8086 processor.
As fate would have it, in 1980 Seattle Computer Products was forced to develop an operating system for their computers because a version of the very popular CP/M operating system was delayed for the 8086. It was this 8086 operating system, which SCP called QDOS (for Quick and Dirty Operating System), that Microsoft soon bought the rights for and licensed to IBM for their new PC. And Microsoft thus began their transformation from a simple software development company in the early history of personal computing to one of the most dominant technology companies in history.
1992 – High School Senior Wins Computer Science Contest with Traffic Flow Program
The Los Angeles Times reported on high school senior Kevin Chang, who won an area computer science contest with a program to improve traffic flow by automatically controlling acceleration and braking. Chang’s program utilized an infrared sensor that monitored the distance between a car and other objects and told the car whether to speed up or slow down.
1999 – Palm announces the m100.
2002 – Kevin Warwick had his chip removed. Warwick implanted the chip earlier that year in order to experiment with human-computer interaction, culminating in a direct connection to his wife.
2007 – Terry Semel of Yahoo Step Down
Terry Semel was under pressure by the board because of dissatisfaction of is compensation. Terry was brought in to create a partnership with Hollywood, which really didn’t happen. He handed the resign over to Jerry Yang, who started promising revitalized talks with Microsoft. There are a few that even speculate that was when the buyout of Yahoo began.
2009 – Jammie Thomas-Rasset was found guilty of copyright infringement and ordered to pay 1.92 million to the RIAA.
2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft was launched on its mission to collect information about the Moon, particularly around the poles.
2014 – Amazon announced its first cell phone the Fire Phone an event in Seattle. The phone featured object recognition and a dynamic perspective 3D interface.
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