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IBM 9345 Hard Disk Drive
Developed in San Jose, California by IBM, this was the first Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to use Magneto-resistant heads. The first ones were shipped in November of 1990, and proved to have a large advantage over it's competing HDD's in the market, as it allowed for more information to be stored. -
Intel's Pentium Microprocessor
Intel released the beginning of a family of microprocessors, the Pentium, in 1993. This was one of the main personal computers that people bought, as it allowed for people to run more complex applications - such as the newly released video game "Doom" - or simultaneously run applications, thanks to improvements such as an upgrade from 1.2 million to 3.1 million transistors. However, the Pentium had a flaw where the CPU's transistors would not do division properly. -
Windows 95
This technological innovation is perhaps one of the most widely known operating systems of all time. Released by Microsoft in 1995, a staggering $330 million dollars was spent on a promotional campaign, which wildly succeeded. It was helped that the operating system itself had major improvements over it's predecessor, Windows 3.1, in terms of ease of use, user interface, and added features such as the 32-bit File Access which allowed for better file management. -
Compact Disc Re-Writable (CD-RW)
The CD-RW was a large advancement in the whole field of computers and storage. They were made by many different companies, such as Bluray Korea, Panasonic, and Sony, and all shared similar characteristics. The CD-RW was meant to be an improvement from the CD-RO's that were previously being used, but they eventually lost out to DVD's, which were more easily usable and had better compatibility with computers than CD-RW's. -
Nvidia's GeForce 256
The GeForce 256 created by Nvidia was marketed as the first GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit and released to the world on October 11th, 1999. As computers and software became more complicated and required more technology to run well, this was made to take the burden of handling graphics off the Central Processing Unit of a computer, and improved the frame rate of most games by about 50%.
