Similar to chess, Archon, in which users fought battles, was one of the “stars” of the Commodore 64 epoch. It was developed by Free Fall Associates, and distributed by Electronic Arts.
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Founded in 1887, J. Lyons and Co. was a British restaurant chain, food manufacturing and hotel conglomerate.
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has announced that the source code of the DOS 3.1 version released in June 1978 for the legendary Apple II, has been made available for non-commercial use with permission of Apple Inc. and programmer Paul Laughton.
Microsoft’s co-founder and legendary figure, Bill Gates first tried his fingers at programming at the age of 15, in November1970, more precisely on the 18th of this month, at Lakeside School in Seattle.
The first written mention of Intel 4004, a 4-bit CPU, was made (in the magazine called Electronic News ) on 15 November 1971.
Then called Legend, today’s leading computer manufacturer Lenovo was founded by eleven engineers in Beijing on 1 November 1984. In 2012 Lenovo beat former world leader Hewlett-Packard by volume of unit sales.
The first online message in history was transmitted over the ARPANET at 10.20 in the evening on 29 November 1969.
Germany’s leading electro-technological company, Siemens was founded by the inventor and entrepreneur Ernst Werner von Siemens (1816-1892) 166 years ago, on 1 October 1847.
Mac OS 9, the final major variant of the Apple Classic Mac operation system was released on 23 October 1999.
The National Museum of Computing in the UK is planning to restore, and set at work one of the four existing machines of the ICT 1301 business computers manufactured in 1960.