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Apple Powerbook
The Apple Powerbook is introduced after the failure of the Macintosh Portable, the first consumer laptop to include a built in track-ball, internal floppy drive, and palm rests, the design of which can still be seen echoed in modern laptops. -
Pentium processor
Intel unveils the first Pentium microprocessor, which made large advances in program speed, due to allowing for multiple instructions at once and the ability to render visuals and play music. Future innovations to graphical and audio processing building on this advancement is why may of us use computers the was that we do today. -
Palm Pilot
The Palm Pilot is unveiled, a PDA (but marketed as a 'connected organizer') with the ability to sync with a PC via cable connection. It included a 16MHz microprocessor and utilized gestural input through its 'Graffiti' system. The increased processor capabilities foreshadowed the advent of powerful hand-held computers like our smartphones. -
ASCI Red
ASCI Red, a supercomputer built by IBM, went fully online. It was used for management and maintenance of the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal following conventions banning underground nuclear testing being passed. It could perform 1.3 trillion calculations per second, the world's fastest computer until the year 2000. -
iMac
The iMac in unveiled, Apple's first new product under the leadership of Steve Jobs. Notoriously user-friendly, it was iconic in the general consumer market until the late 2000s.