Press release

Kemény János

BASIC, one of the best-known programming languages in the world, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

19 May marks the birthday of the cube that was initially called Magic Cube, later to be re-named and renowned as Rubik’s Cube.

Bonhams auction house has announced on its website that logos that decorated the exterior of Apple headquarters in Cupertino until 1997 will be auctioned on 4 June.

The first stored programme computer ever in the world, the pioneering British EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) was put at work 65 years ago.

The very first World Wide Web conference was held 20 years ago, on 27 May, 1994 at CERN in Geneva.

Electron

An enthusiast of Acorn computers, Chris Whytehead, who has also dedicated a website to these machines, has donated his priceless collection to the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, UK.

Living Computer Museum based in Seattle opened on 25 October 2012.

Jerry Roberts

Március 25-én, életének 94. évében elhunyt Raymond “Jerry” Roberts kapitány, a Bletchley Park második világháborús kódtörőinek egyik utolsó túlélője.

IBM’s System/360 (S/360) mainframe computer family was announced fifty years ago, on 7 April 1964, and was marketed between 1965 and 1978.

The last 16-bit operating system, Windows 3.1, codenamed Janus, was released by Microsoft in April 1992.

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