Bill Hewlett (1913-2001) and Dave Packard (1912-1996) graduated from Stanford as electrical engineers in 1935.
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January marks an important month for Apple, and consequently for computer history as well.
On 14 December 1952 a letter of intent was issued by the US Navy to MIT. The renowned university was requested to develop the Airplane Stability and Control Analyzer programme (ASCA) as a continuation of the Whirlwind Project.
British mathematician Tommy Flowers (1905-1998), who designed the prototype of Colossus, took an active part in codebreaking in World War Two.
Jeff Keacher, a software consultant in Denver, decided to embark on an especially challenging IT project that he had set for himself: getting his 27-year-old Macintosh Plus computer connected to the worldwide web.
On 20 December 1943, Thomas Watson Jr., informed James B. Conant, that America’s pioneer in the design profession, Norman Melancton Bel Geddes, create the case for IBM’s forthcoming electro-mechanical computer.
Enigma (Greek word meaning mystery or something puzzling) was a German manufactured electro-mechanical rotor machine that was used to cipher and decipher messages.
On 9 December, the renowned Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California paid a tribute to Douglas Engelbart, who passed away at the age of eighty-eight on 2 July.
The mathematician Norbert Wiener, the “originator of cybernetics” was born on 26 November 1894 in Columbia, Missouri State.
The announcement that development work on Winamp would be discontinued was received with great sadness web-wide.