The National Bureau of Standards completed its SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer) at the Institute for Numerical Analysis in Los Angeles. Rather than testing components like its companion, the SEAC, the SWAC had an objective of computing using already-developed technology.
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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
Apple Computer releases the Apple II to instant success.
The Tandy TRS-80 is introduced.
TCP arrives.
The Commodore PET is released.
Oracle Corporation is founded.
The VAX-11/780 by Digital Equipment Corporation is introduced.
The Vector-1 microcomputer is released by Vector Graphic.
PeachTree Accounting arrives. It's the first business software introduced for microcomputers.
The first fiber optic telephone cables are installed in California.