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La red de mensajeria Telex entra en línea
Al igual que el Volkswagen Beetle y los modernos sistemas de autopistas, la red de mensajería Telex proviene del período inicial del Tercer Reich de Alemania. Telex comienza como una forma de distribuir mensajes militares, pero pronto se convierte en una red mundial de mensajes de texto oficiales y comerciales que persistirá en algunos países hasta la década de 2000. -
La calculadora de numeros complejos(CNC) esta completa
En 1939, Bell Telephone Laboratories completa esta calculadora, diseñada por el científico George Stibitz. En 1940, Stibitz demostró el CNC en una conferencia de la American Mathematical Society celebrada en el Dartmouth College. -
ERA 101 introducido
Una de las primeras computadoras producidas comercialmente, el primer cliente de la compañía fue la Marina de los EE. UU. El 1101, diseñado por ERA pero construido por Remington-Rand, estaba destinado a la informática de alta velocidad y almacenaba 1 millón de bits en su tambor magnéticol. -
COBOL(lenguaje comun orientado a los negocios
Un equipo formado por varios fabricantes de computadoras y el Pentágono desarrolla COBOL, un acrónimo de lenguaje común orientado a los negocios. Muchas de sus especificaciones se basan en gran medida del lenguaje anterior FLOW-MATIC. -
AMDAHAL Corporation presenta al Amdahl
Gene Amdahl, father of the IBM System/360, starts his own company, Amdahl Corporation, to compete with IBM in mainframe computer systems. The 470V/6 was the company’s first product and ran the same software as IBM System/370 computers but cost less and was smaller and faster. -
El comorodo presenta el VIC-20
Commodore releases the VIC-20 home computer as the successor to the Commodore PET personal computer. Intended to be a less expensive alternative to the PET, the VIC-20 was highly successful, becoming the first computer to sell more than a million units. Commodore even used Star Trek television star William Shatner in advertisements. -
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. Magneto-resistive heads gave the 9345 an advantage over its competitors, as the bits could be stored more densely. -
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. Designed by a team at Maxis led by Wil Wright, The Sims took concepts from Wright's previous game Sim City. Characters controlled by the player were customizable, and spoke an artificial language called Simlish. -
ANGRY BIRDS SE CONVIERTE EN EL JUEGO MOVIL MAS VENDIDO ALV
As touchscreen-enabled tablets and smartphones proliferate, mobile games became top-sellers. In Angry Birds, players slingshot wingless birds of various kinds towards towers inhabited by green pigs in an effort to knock them to the ground. Selling for just 99 cents from an online store, Angry Birds and its sequels have had more than two billion downloads.
