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This Day In Tech History
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
-Popular Mechanics, March 1949More Tech History
Compaq produces the first clone of the IBM PC, running the same software.
Microsoft announces Word and Windows.
The MIDI [ Musical Instrument Digital Interface ] is introduced.
The Apple Lisa is introduced.
Lotus Software releases Lotus 123 and it becomes the hottest spreadsheet of it's day.
The first version of Novell Netware is released. Bundled with it is Snipes, one of the first network games.
Gavilan Computer releases the Gavilan SC, one of the earliest computers marketed as a laptop.