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  • 1993 Sculley quits Apple On June 18, 1993, John Sculley officially resigned as president of Apple Computer, while retaining his title as chairman of the board. Sculley said he wanted to concentrate on strategy, while new president Michael Spi…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1995 Microsoft antitrust settlement reinstated An antitrust agreement between Microsoft and the government was reinstated on June 16, 1995. A federal judge had rejected the 1994 agreement as being too lenient. Microsoft first ran afoul of…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1995 John Atanasoff dies John Atanasoff developed a precursor of the digital computer in the late 1930s. Atanasoff, working with Clifford Berry, developed the Atanasoff Berry Computer (ABC), which could solve differential equations with bin…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1951 UNIVAC dedicated On this day in 1951, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert demonstrated and dedicated UNIVAC I, the first electronic computer for commercial use, at the Census Bureau in Philadelphia. Using magnetic tape for data input an…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1995 IBM announces Internet plans Two days after purchasing Lotus Development Corporation, IBM announced it would strengthen its efforts in the Internet arena. The company said it would release software products for Web design and administr…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1991 CERN seminar on WWW On June 12, 1991, CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, held a seminar about the World Wide Web, a new hypertext system designed by British computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee during a fellowship…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • KidRed, That first one looks more like a desklamp than my iMac.
    in AI gets in on the action Comment by kurt June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by wfzelle No Picture? \ NETROMac was kind enough to make the pictures I have been posting. Unfortunately, he made a mistake with 12 days to go and it said 14. I had neither the time nor skill to correct it so I jus…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 12 Days Left to WWDC 1922 Transatlantic radio fax of a photograph The first photograph to be sent across the Atlantic via radio fax was a photo of Pope Pius XI, sent from Rome to Maine. The 7-by-9.5-inch photo took forty minutes to transmit…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1991 Microsoft beats pirates A jury awarded $1.2 million to Microsoft and Everex Systems in a lawsuit involving pirated copies of Microsoft software. The defendants were accused of selling counterfeit copies of a Microsoft computer program …
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • When did the image of Gollum appear at the top of this site? I noticed earlier today or yesterday. Did it get put up after the eWeek story?
    in eWeek article on Smeagol and Q37 Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1995 IBM consent decree ends On June 9, 1995, a federal judge gave IBM permission to file a motion to end a 1956 consent decree. The decree, which followed an antitrust case, limited the ways in which the company could sell computers. The c…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Anders There is still laptops with sparcs out there... Like here. Love the line, "PARCLE® notebooks from Tadpole® are the most affordable, full featured UNIX notebooks money can buy." What about an iB…
    in New PPC 970 Laptops Comment by kurt June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg I curious about how often Apple will update its powermacs now that Moto isn't doling out the speed bumps. If Apple has to wait long between 970 speed bumps, it would make sense for them to bump Powermacs…
    in Don't get too excited... Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1994 Apple unveils QuickTime VR Apple Computer introduced QuickTime VR, a multimedia software presenting 360-degree views of scenes, allowing users to zoom in on objects for a closer look. One of the first software products to use QuickTime…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • Dog Almighty, I like the name GV. Haven't seen that name suggested before. But does that mean the processor is only half the OS?
    in AI gets in on the action Comment by kurt June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Shaktai Well to kind of bring us back on track, I was just thinking how fun it would be to attend the WWDC keynote this year. Then I thought of 4 really good reasons why I shouldn't. 1. I am not a developer 2. …
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1993 Digital TV box agreement On June 7, 1993, Apple Computer, IBM, Motorola, and other companies agreed to work together to develop set-top boxes for delivering interactive and multimedia services. Cable, computer, and Internet companies b…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1977 Apple II released On June 5, 1977, the Apple II personal computer went on sale. The machine, which sold for $1,298, was the first commercially successful personal computer. Developer Steve Wozniak had created the Apple I to impress his…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003
  • 1985 Jobs changes job On this day in 1985, Apple Computer announced that chairman and cofounder Steve Jobs would no longer control the manufacturing and marketing of the Macintosh computer. The thirty-year-old Jobs had led the development…
    in Wwdc Comment by kurt June 2003