Apple released the Macintosh Plus in 1986, two years after the debut of the best selling Macintosh. Although it had the same Motorola chip as the original, it sported a lavish 1MB of memory, a huge boost over the previous 128k. It also included support for the newest 800k double sided floppy disks and was the first Mac to have a SCSI port. It’s full featured package of all in one computer, mouse, and keyboard as well as the ability to upgrade to 4MB of memory made it a hit. It sold for $2599.
This Day In Tech History
- 1938 - The first outline of the Harvard Mark I is circulated at IBM.
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M.I.T. introduces the TX-0, the first fully programmable, transistorized computer. It featured the first "bottled" transistor, hosted a 3-D tic tac toe game and a maze where mice found martinis and became increasingly drunk.
IBM takes another stride with the 305 RAMAC, the first computer to use magnetic disk storage.
The Bendix G-15 is produced by the Bendix Corporation.
IBM introduces the first hard disk drive.
The first cordless TV remote control is invented.
The Ferranti Pegasus 1 is operational.
FORTRAN is created, which enabled computers to perform repetitive tasks from a single set of instructions using loops. The first commercial FORTRAN program was run at Westinghouse.
Seymour Cray founds the Control Data Corp. (CDC)
In response to Sputnik, ARPA is created.
NCR emerges with their first transistor computer, the NCR 304.
Fairchild Semiconductor is founded.