SENDMSG was one of the earliest e-mail programs ever developed for a multi-user system running the TENEX operating system. Along with READMAIL, it was the first networked mail system. Ray Tomlinson updated the program in 1971 to allow users of the ARPANET to send messages to one another. It is…
Gary Starkweather created the first laser printer at Xerox in 1971. The first commercial laser printer was the IBM 3800 released in 1976 and is shown here. It was a large affair that often took up alot of space, but offered high volume printing. The Xerox Star 8010 was introduced…
In 1971 Ray Tomlinson, a computer engineer at BBN, composes two programs to exchange electronic messages with users of ARPANet. He introduced the @ symbol, which becomes the standard way of separating the user and the user’s server. Although not designed for communication among users, ARPANet messages were commonly e-mail….
The 8″ floppy disk was the grandfather of all disks that came after. It first appeared on the high-tech landscape in the late sixties in the form of a big, thin plastic disk housed in an eight-inch-square black jacket. An oblong hole in each side left the recording surface open…
The 4004 was Intel’s first microprocessor. This breakthrough invention powered the Busicom calculator and paved the way for embedding intelligence in inanimate objects as well as the personal computer. The birth of the 4004 was an intense moment witnessed by the designer, Federico Faggin alone, working into the night in…