The inventor and computer pioneer Reynold B. Johnson, nicknamed the “father of the disk drive” in later years, was born on 16 July 1906 in Minnesota.
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Between 5-7 July, the Snibston Discovery Museum in Coalville will host a pioneering festival to celebrate the age of micro-chips with a display of vintage computers.
The Past of the Future – From Punched Cards to Information Society conference organised by the John von Neumann Computer Society was held on 25th June at the Albert Szent-Györgyi Agora, home to the Exhibition on ICT History.
Adobe Acrobat/Reader, the software that can represent and print PDF documents has been used in Apple Macintosh computers since 15th June 1993.
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, gives a brief introduction to the history of computing, from Symbolics through Commodere to Adroids, in a video taken this year.
Sir Charles Dunstone, director of leading British telecom companies, the Carphone Warehouse and Talk Talk, opened a new Software Gallery at the National Museum of Computing on 12th June.
On 10th June, the collection of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, received another machine as a temporary exhibit – Watson, a historical milestone, and a vintage piece today.
Developed by Thomas R. Bruce, Cello, the first internet browser for Microsoft Windows, more precisely for Windows NT 3.5, was introduced on 8th June 1993.
The UK National Museum of Computing has arranged a special temporary display about the history of computer music.
Forty years go on 22 May 1973, Bob Metcalfe, who worked at PARC, Xerox's legendary Research Centre in Palo Alto at the time, wrote a memo that laid the foundations for a technology that hasn't grown less significant since then.