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La red de mensajería télex entra en línea
Like the Volkswagen Beetle and modern freeway systems, the Telex messaging network comes out of the early period of Germany’s Third Reich. -
La Calculadora de números complejos (CNC) está completa
In 1939, Bell Telephone Laboratories completes this calculator, designed by scientist George Stibitz. -
ERA 1101 introducido
One of the first commercially produced computers, the company´s first customer was the US Navy. -
COBOL (lenguaje común orientado a los negocios)
A team drawn from several computer manufacturers and the Pentagon develop COBOL—an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language. -
Amdahl Corporation presenta el Amdahl 470
Gene Amdahl, father of the IBM System/360, starts his own company, Amdahl Corporation, to compete with IBM in mainframe computer systems. -
El comodoro presenta el VIC-20
Commodore releases the VIC-20 home computer as the successor to the Commodore PET personal computer. -
Unidad de disco duro IBM 9345
IBM's 9345 hard disk drive is introduced. Codenamed "Sawmill," it was the first hard disk drive to use magneto-resistive heads. -
Los Sims son lanzados
While most games see a player working towards an end-game scenario, The Sims allows players to create a home, get a job, and form relationships in a free-form world. -
Angry Birds se convierte en el juego móvil más vendido
As touchscreen-enabled tablets and smartphones proliferate, mobile games became top-sellers. In Angry Birds, players slingshot wingless birds of various kinds towards towers inhabited by green pigs in an effort to knock them to the ground.
