September 30, 1980 On September 30, 1980, Xerox, Digital and Intel, released version 1.0 of the Ethernet specification called Blue Book. Ethernet works by breaking up information being sent to and from devices into different sized bits of info called frames. Today,...
September 22, 1986 Computer coding, at least the more modern era of coding that we would recognize, really began in the 1950’s. So, it’s a bit surprising that it took the courts this long to determine that computer code deserved copyright protections. In September of...
September 16, 1985 AND 1997 After a head-to-head boardroom battle with John Sculley, the former PepsiCo executive that Steve Jobs himself recruited to Apple, Jobs resigned from the company on September 16, 1985. Twelve years to the day later, Steve Jobs was back and...
August 17, 1982 42 years ago, the world of music and music technology was “forever” changed with the release of the first commercially produced album on CD, “The Visitors” from the Swedish pop supergroup ABBA. The compact disc was co-developed by Phillips and Sony....
August 12, 1981 IBM introduced its first true personal computer, the IBM PC Model 5150. It was developed in less than a year and rapidly released to the consumer market, though it was really developed for business use. The price tag: under $1,600, far below the IBM...
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