Tag: technology history
Tech Time Warp: IBM 650 and the rise of computing
Tech Time Warp: IBM 650 and the rise of computing
Business computing took a major leap forward 73 years ago this month when IBM announced the IBM 650. IBM calls it the first mass-produced computer, and it also became the company’s first highly profitable computer. IBM marketed the 650 as...
Tech Time Warp: Everybody was kung fu fighting
Tech Time Warp: Everybody was kung fu fighting
This week’s Tech Time Warp goes back twenty-nine years ago, when one of the more convoluted chapters in technology history was being written. Research scientist Tsutomu Shimomura was enjoying a Christmas vacation in Lake Tahoe when he received a troubling...
