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• Posted March 22, 2014, 1:53 p.m. - 10 years, 7 months ago

Intel Pentium Processors

March 22^nd marked the anniversary of Intel’s release of fifth generation microarchitecture with the Pentium processors making their …

• Posted Feb. 17, 2014, 8 a.m. - 10 years, 8 months ago

A Look Back at Windows 2000

Today marks the 14^th Anniversary of the release by Microsoft of Windows 2000.  Windows 2000 succeeded Windows NT 4 …

• Posted Jan. 26, 2014, 8 a.m. - 10 years, 9 months ago

A Look at the Sinclair ZX80

1980 bought us the Sinclair ZX80, offering the first computer with a price tag of less than £100, made by …

• Posted Jan. 3, 2014, 9 a.m. - 10 years, 10 months ago

Historic Apple Launches throughout January

With the New Year proving a popular choice for Apple when planning the announcement and launch of new additions to …

• Posted Jan. 1, 2014, 8 a.m. - 10 years, 10 months ago

Happy Birthday Hewlett Packard

On the 1^st January 1939, in a garage in Palo Alto, California, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded a …

• Posted Dec. 26, 2013, 10:13 a.m. - 10 years, 10 months ago

Charles Babbage’s Mechanical Computers

Today, December 26th, marks 222 years since Charles Babbage was born in London, and little did his parents know that …

• Posted Dec. 22, 2013, 8 a.m. - 10 years, 10 months ago

Tommy Flowers and The Colossus

Tommy Flowers

Born: 22 December 1905

Died: 28 October 1998

Profession: Engineer

Nationality: British

Engineer Thomas Flowers (“Tommy”) was born …

• Posted Dec. 9, 2013, 9 a.m. - 10 years, 10 months ago

Anniversary of the Gore Bill

Today marks the anniversary of the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (HPCA) or Gore Bill as it is commonly …

• Posted Dec. 3, 2013, 4:45 p.m. - 10 years, 11 months ago

Events in Computing History – December

December 2^nd

Year: 1991

Event: Apple QuickTime was first released

Interesting Facts:

• The first ever release of QuickTime, which …

• Posted Nov. 22, 2013, 4:38 p.m. - 10 years, 11 months ago

Happy Birthday Rasmus Lerdorf

Congratulations to Rasmus Lerdorf, the renowned programmer responsible for creating PHP scripting language, who celebrates his 45th birthday today.

Born …