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Thomas J Watson, Sr. became president of International Business Machines and turned the company into one of the most effective selling organizations yet seen.
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Magnetic Core memory was developed and allowed binary information to be recorded and retreived.
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John Backus and IBM create the first successful high level programming language
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The first Disk drive for Random-Access Storage of data was released
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First RAM chip introduced by intel, had a capacity of 1-K bit
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Alan Shugart and IBM created the "floppy" disk which was nicknamed floppy for its flexibility
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The first home computer marketed to hobbyists so they can build and use their own computer
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IBM hires Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC
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MS-DOS(microsoft disk operating system) 1.0 was released.
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The intel 8088 processor was the processor chosen to be used in the first IBM PC
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MS DOS 1.25 was released
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Adobe was founded
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MS-DOS 2.0 was released
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Dell Computer was founded
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MS DOS 3.0 and 3.1 Released
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Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced
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Dell releases its first computer the "Turbo PC"
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MS-DOS 3.2 is released
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Chipsets begin to be found on motherboards
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Microsoft introduces windows 2.0
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Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the internet we use today
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The World Wide Web was Launched to the public
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microsoft introduces windows 3.11
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Java programming language, developed by Sun Microsystems
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Windows XP was launched
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Windows Vista was released