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First Computer Bug was Found in a Computer
Grace Hopper records what she called a bug in her computer... which was really a moth stuck between replay contact of the Harvard Mark II computer. Hopper helped program the Mark II and the earlier Mark I computer. -
Earliest Computer Games
Alexander Douglas was a Cambridge University PhD candidate when he designed one of the earliest computer games. It was called OXO that was a version of Tic-Tac-Toe. OXO allowed a player to choose if they wanted to go first or the computer to go. Using a rotary telephone dial to enter the moves. -
DEC tape
A DEC tape was a modification of LINC tape. Tghe 3/4 inch tae was widely thought to be improvement over paper tape and part of its reliability. It was often used for someones personal data storage. -
Olivetti Programma 101 was released
This is a printing programmable calculator that was made for discrete transistors and delay-line memory. This product could do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as well as find square roots. 40,00 were sold including the 10 that were sold to NASA. -
Star Wars
Star Wars had combined old-fashioned science fiction storytelling with cutting-edge special effects. One effect, which was the Death Star briefing, featured a wire-frame. It was one of the first uses of wire-frame animation in a major motion picture. -
The Mark-8 "Do It Yourself" Kit
This Kit was designed by John Titus and uses the Intel 8008 microprocessor. The cost was $5 and you could purchase the circuit boards were available for $50. -
Machine of the Year
The Machine of the Year was named by a TIME publisher. He had said that the computer has truly become personalized, brought down to size so that people can carry, hold, and play with them at all times. -
Digital Millennium Copyright Act Comes of Law.
When the Internet became a thing, an increase in copying and/or sharing of digital content including things like music, video, and software often a direct violation of copyright law. to combat this, the US Congress passed the violation of DMCA. Which strengthened the punishment for copyrighting on the internet. The DMCA has become a worldwide law. -
First Apple Stores Open
Apple's first outlets are opened for business in Tysons Corner, Virginia, and in Glendale California. The Apple Store did not only offer Apple products, but also offered software, accessories, and classed on how to use Apple software. The Genius Bar, where customers obtain support for their Apple products, has also become a major part of these stores. -
The MacBook Air is released
Apple introduces their first ultra notebook which was a light, thin laptop with a high-capacity battery. to reduce the size, the traditional hard drive was replaced with a solid-state disk, the first market computer to do so.
