On this day in 1980 Microsoft formally signed a contract with IBM to create an operating system for the then in-development IBM PC. The operating system was based …
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On this day in 1950 the SEAC or Standards Eastern Automatic Computer was dedicated by its makers, the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS). Initially known as the …
On this day in 1986 newspapers reported that after years of Japanese-American battles in electronics, American tech company IBM became the world’s first computer manufacturer to use a …
On this day in 1936 German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer Konrad Zuse filed for a patent for the automatic execution of calculations, a process he invented …
On this day in 1887 the comptometer, the first commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculator, was patented in the United States by inventor Dorr E. Felt. The comptometer was …