Apollo Computer unveiled the first work station, its DN100, offering more power than some minicomputers at a fraction of the price. Apollo Computer and Sun Microsystems, another early entrant in the work station market, optimized their machines to run the computer-intensive graphics programs common in engineering.
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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
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper records the first computer bug, a moth that got stuck inside one of the relays of the Harvard Mark II Computer. Hopper eventually went on to help invent COBOL.
ENIAC is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
The first outline of the architecture of a stored-program computer was done by John Von Neumann, in his "First Draft of a Report on EDVAC".
The Plankalkül programming language is developed in Nazi Germany.