Released in June, 1998 by Microsoft Corp., Windows 98 arrived after Windows 95. Code named Memphis, it was a hybrid 16 bit/32 bit operating system like it’s predecessor. It included support for emerging DVD and USB technology, AGP, and offered easier search capabilities. It also included Internet Explorer 4.0. (which continued to be deeply integrated into the OS itself) and improved Plug N Play support. In the beginning it sold well but suffered from incompatibility issues that weren’t addressed until Windows 98 SE was released the following year.
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 SEAC computer is constructed, and is the first stored program computer completed in the U.S. It was also the first computer to use all diode logic, which was more reliable than vacuum tube. It's sibling machine, the SWAC would be completed shortly after.
The Pilot ACE, one of Britain's first computers, runs it's first program.
Alan Turing introduces the Turing test in his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence".
The ERA-1101, the first commercial computer and early magnetic storage device, is introduced.
The Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) becomes England's first commercial computer. It was created at the behest of the Lyons Tea Co. president.
The UNIVAC was the first commercial computer to gain widespread attention when it was delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau. It cost a whopping $750,000 and an additional $185,000 for a high speed printer.
The Whirlwind computer is brought online for the first time.
The EDVAC computer is operational.