computers from 1990-2000

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  • IBM's 9345 hard disk drive

    IBM's 9345 hard disk drive
    IBM's 9345 hard disk drive is introduced. Codenamed "Sawmill," it was the first hard disk drive to use magneto-resistive heads

  • Intel Paragon is operational

    Intel Paragon is operational
    Based on the Touchstone Delta computer Intel had built at Caltech, the Paragon is a parallel supercomputer that uses 2,048 (later increased to more than four thousand) Intel i860 processors.

  • BeBox is released

    BeBox is released
    founded by former Apple executive Jean Louis Gassée and a number of former Apple, NeXT and SUN employees, releases their only product – the BeBox

  • Sony Vaio series is begun

    Sony Vaio series is begun
    The first VAIO, a desktop computer, featured an additional 3D interface on top of the Windows 95 operating system as a way of attracting new users.

  • Nvidia releases the GeForce 256

    Nvidia releases the GeForce 256
    A new approach, one based on a processor specially designed to manipulate graphics, was initiated and the resulting product was known as a “Graphics Processing Unit,” or “GPU.”