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La red de mensajería télex entra en línea
Like the Volkswagen Beetle and modern freeway systems, the Telex messaging network comes out of the early period of Germany’s Third Reich. -
La Calculadora de números complejos (CNC) está completa
In 1939, Bell Telephone Laboratories completes this calculator, designed by scientist George Stibitz. In 1940, Stibitz demonstrated the CNC at an American Mathematical Society conference held at Dartmouth College. -
ERA 1101 introducido
One of the first commercially produced computers, the company´s first customer was the US Navy. -
COBOL (lenguaje común orientado a los negocios)
A team drawn from several computer manufacturers and the Pentagon develop COBOL—an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language. Many of its specifications borrow heavily from the earlier FLOW-MATIC language. -
Amdahl Corporation presenta el Amdahl 470
Gene Amdahl, father of the IBM System/360, starts his own company, Amdahl Corporation, to compete with IBM in mainframe computer systems. -
El comodoro presenta el VIC-20
Commodore releases the VIC-20 home computer as the successor to the Commodore PET personal computer. -
Unidad de disco duro IBM 9345
IBM's 9345 hard disk drive is introduced. Codenamed "Sawmill," it was the first hard disk drive to use magneto-resistive heads. -
Los Sims son lanzados
While most games see a player working towards an end-game scenario, The Sims allows players to create a home, get a job, and form relationships in a free-form world. -
Angry Birds se convierte en el juego móvil más vendido
As touchscreen-enabled tablets and smartphones proliferate, mobile games became top-sellers.
