19. February 2024
Windows 95
Windows 95 was released and breaks all the sales records.
19. February 2024
Descent
In 1995 the game Descent brings for the first time a full freedom of movement to the computer.
19. February 2024
Browser “Mosaic”
The commercial internet (WWW) starts in Germany and that especially thanks to the browser Mosaic who was introduced in 1993. He is the ancestor of the later coming Netscape Navigator.
19. February 2024
The end of Commodore
Commodore is unfortunately dead. Also in Germany, Commodore, a success story of the 80s, has to declare itself bancrupt.
19. February 2024
Doom
1993 id-Software presents “Doom” which leaded over night to a high popularity of firt person shooters. In Germany new zip codes where introduced.
6. November 2023
Pentium 1
Intel introduces the first x86 processor with a name. The Pentium gives the x86 competitor a lot of trouble, even though it initially contains a serious calculation error (FDIV bug).
6. November 2023
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.1 appears and becomes the first truly successful Microsoft operating system…
6. November 2023
Germany becomes world champion
Germany becomes football world champion in the summer of 1990. The national team won the final in Rome 1-0 against Argentina.
6. November 2023
Germany unification
After the fall of the Wall in 1989, the two German states were reunified on October 3, 1990
3. November 2022
Intel 486
Intel presents the 486 processor, the first x86 chip with integrated memory (L1 cache).
3. November 2022
ASTRA1A
ASTRA1A, the first commercial television satellite, is launched into orbit; More than a dozen satellites follow and help private television, which has been broadcasting since 1984, achieve a breakthrough.
3. November 2022
Amiga 500
The Amiga 500 appears and repeats the miracle of the C64 – albeit with more modest sales figures. Nevertheless, the “girlfriend” becomes the undisputed number one among home computers.
3. November 2022
Intel vs AMD
Intel terminates its licensing agreement with AMD. The result was a legal dispute lasting years and the beginning of an unequal duel that continues to this day. Unfortunately, no exact date is known, only the […]
3. November 2022
Acorn ARM1
Acorn introduces the ARM1, a 32-bit RISC processor, but it is rarely used. Only the ARM2 from 1986 was used in a computer. The prototype was presented on April 26, 1985 and delivered shortly later […]
3. November 2022
Intel 386
With the 386, Intel is switching to 32-bit technology for x86 processors.
3. November 2022
NES
Nintendo’s NES games console comes onto the market in the USA – it becomes one of the most successful gaming platforms of all time and ensures a fantastic comeback of “console gaming”. Release was for […]
2. November 2021
IBM “8088 Portable”
IBM launches the “8088 Portable” (the first PC laptop), which looks more like a toolbox than a computer.
2. November 2021
Modem
The first modem for data transmission over a telephone line is presented. ATTENTION – Modems were already available before, but not generally and worldwide for the Internet: A modem (short for modulator-demodulator) is a device […]
2. November 2021
E.T. (Steven Spielberg)
E.T. by Steven Spielberg is showing in cinemas and breaking all audience records.
10. February 2021
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 (C64 for short, colloquially 64 or “bread box”) is an 8-bit home computer with 64 KB of RAM. Since its introduction in January 1982 at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, the Commodore-built […]
10. February 2021
IBM PC
In record time, IBM engineers used cheap components to build a desktop computer that would coin the term PC. There is an Intel 8088 processor and DOS 1.0 on board. The open character (only the […]
8. February 2021
8086
The 8086, introduced in 1978, is still the compatibility basis for all Macs and PCs today. A little later, Motorola’s 680×0 appeared, also one of the most successful chips of all time. The Intel 8086 […]
8. February 2021
Z80
The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor developed by Zilog Inc. company. The Z80 is still available today in CMOS technology. It was created shortly after Federico Faggin left Intel and founded his own company […]
8. February 2021
Altair 8800
The Altair 8800 was an early home computer, then called a “microcomputer” to differentiate it from the refrigerator-sized “minicomputers”. With its toggle switches for input and LEDs for output (machine console), this device did not […]
8. February 2021
Apple I
The Apple I went on sale, followed a year later by the Apple II, which was produced until 1993. The Apple I was a personal computer (PC) developed by Steve Wozniak from the American company […]
8. February 2021
Motorola MC6800
The Motorola 6800 (MC6800), not to be confused with the much better known Motorola 68000, is an 8-bit processor from 1974 with 78 instructions and a 1 or 2 MHz clock rate. It has a […]
8. February 2021
Pong
Published by Atari in 1972, Pong became the first globally popular video game and first became popular on machines in arcades in the 1970s. It is considered the forefather of video games, although video games […]
8. February 2021
Traf-O-Data
In 1972 the companies Atari, SAP and Traf-O-Data were founded. The latter would be meaningless had it not been renamed to Microsoft by Bill Gates and Paul Allen three years later.
8. February 2021
Intel 4004
The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit microprocessor from microchip manufacturer Intel that was released on November 15, 1971. It is considered the first single-chip microprocessor to be mass-produced and sold on the open market. It […]
8. February 2021
AMD
AMD was founded on May 1, 1969 under the name “Sanders Association” by Jerry Sanders III and Ed Turney. The seed capital was provided by investors, including Intel founder Robert Noyce.
30. April 2020
Cray 6600
The Cray 6600 is the first supercomputer to achieve respectable results with standard hardware.
26. April 2020
The first modern mainframe computers
The first modern mainframe computers are completed: Siemens 2002 (1957), NEAC 1101 (1958) and IBM 7000 (1959) are based on better transistors.
26. April 2020
UNIVAC 1
The UNIVAC 1 is the first commercial computer. It is available for a price of one million US dollars. By the end of the year, there will be 31 computers worldwide.
26. April 2020
The transistor
The transistor was invented in Bell Labs, but later developments such as the field effect transistor are at least as important for the technical breakthrough.
26. April 2020
Colossus
In Great Britain “Colossus” cracked German radio messages, in the USA the mainframe computers Mark I (1944) and ENIAC (1946) were built.
26. April 2020
The Second World War
The Second World War claimed more than 60 million lives between 1939 and 1945.
26. April 2020
Z3
German engineer Konrad Zuse completes the “Z3”. The mainframe is considered to be the first functional computer.
26. April 2020
Hollerith machine
The Hollerith machine is used for the US census and becomes the first major success in IT history. Nintendo was founded a year earlier.
26. April 2020
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage begins work on the “Analytical Engine”. Unfortunately I couldn’t find out the exact start date.
26. April 2020
Johann Helfrich von Müller
The architect Johann Helfrich von Müller invented the Müller machine in 1784, which anticipated the principles of later calculators.
25. April 2020
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a functioning calculating machine for all four basic arithmetic operations.
25. April 2020
The Thirty Years’ War
The Thirty Years’ War shook all of Europe between 1618 and 1648.
25. April 2020
Wooden slide rules
Actually it was already 1100 B.C. when wooden slide rules and aids such as the abacus were invented in various cultures and improved over the centuries.
