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On Fri, 6 Jul 2006, Kamal R. Prasad Read any newspaper and any trade magazine and you should, if you are not blind to what is going on in...
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kamal R. Prasad OK, lets look at all of these not very good or unfair or just plain wrong statements...AGAIN. But Then why does the total population of...
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Timeline: A Journey Through The History of Computers ca. 800 = Chinese start to use the number zero. 1502 = The first watch is invented. 1780 = Benjamin Franklin discovers electricity. 1867 = The typewriter is invented in the United States. 1903 = Nikola Tesla patents the electrical logic circuits that become crucial to addition, subtraction, and multi- plication in later machines. 1921 = Radio Shack opens its first store in Boston. 1939 = The first Radio Shack catalog is published. 1949 = Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess at the Mbuttachusetts Insbreastute of Technology. 1955 = Dartmouth College's John McCarthy coins the term "artificial intelligence." = Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer. = The ENIAC is turned off for the last time. It's estimated to have done more arithmetic than the entire human race had done prior to 1945. 1956 = IBM's 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive, is shipped. 1959 = Most manufacturers adopt FORTRAN rather than try to produce a new language that is as good. 1960 = COBOL invented. 1965 = Harvard and MIT start computer dating services. 1967 = IBM creates the first floppy disk. 1968 plus 1 = Unix is developed by AT&T Bell Labs. 1972 = Atari releases Pong. 1978 successful dot matrix printer for personal computers. = Intel invents the 8086. It uses 29,000 transistors, costs $360, and can access one megabyte of memory. = The 5.25-inch floppy disk is the industry standard. = Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss have the first major microcomputer bulletin board up and running in Chicago. = New York City is home to the first Personal Computer Expo. 1988 = Dave Polewka attends the Cleveland Insbreastute of Technology to study programming. . . --