The Honeywell 800 had its first installation in 1960 and was a transistorized electric computer. Spawned from a joint Honeywell/Raytheon project in 1955, the H-800 only sold 89 units. Honeywell released the 1800 and 1800-II later. It was capable of running a few different languages, including COBOL and FORTRAN.
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
CD-RW technology is developed.
Internet Explorer arrives.
Lycos is launched.
Microsoft releases Exchange.
Quake is released by id Software, continuing a highly successful run of first person shooters. It is the successor to the Doom series.
The Palm Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000 are introduced.
eBay is founded.
The Opera web browser is released.
Hotmail is launched.
IBM introduces Deep Blue, the fastest computer of it's day. It beats Gary Kasparov in a game of chess.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejects the Communications Decency Act, ruling it violates the First Amendment.
Video streaming giant Netflix is founded and it's website launched.