In the first full-length computer-animated movie by Pixar, a little boy’s toys are thrown into chaos when a new Space Ranger arrives to vie for supremacy with the boy’s old favorite (a wooden cowboy). When the feuding toys become lost, they are forced to set aside their differences to get home. This extremely popular and successful film features the voice talents of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Laurie Metcalf, and others. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Original Screenplay. Director John Lasseter also won a Special Achievement Academy Award for the film.
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
The IAS computer is operational.
The first programming compiler, A-0 Compiler, is completed by Grace Hopper.
The 702, the first high speed magnetic tape storage system, is announced by IBM. It was typically sold alongside the IBM 701.
IBM begins to emerge with the IBM 701 computer. It's use of speed coding trimmed weeks off the programming schedule, and was the company's first electronic computer. 19 were sold to research companies, the federal government, and aircraft companies.
The AVIDAC computer is operational for the first time.
The Burroughs Adding Machine Company is renamed to Burroughs Corporation. The company would be second only to IBM in the mainframe market by the mid 1960s.
The first color television broadcast hits the airwaves.