This Day in Computer History: November 13

This Day in Computer History

1981

Microsoft held its second annual meeting in the Seahawks Room of the Seattle Ramada Inn.

1984

Atari’s Jack Tramiel held his first press conference since acquiring the company in order to announce plans to manufacture and market a new line of 16 and 32-bit computers.

1989

At the Comdex trade show, IBM and Microsoft jointly announced that Microsoft would withhold features from the Windows operating system in order to promote industry acceptance of IBM’s OS/2. IBM endorses Microsoft for consumer grade computers, and Microsoft endorses OS/2 for high-end computers. They also jointly announced an agreement to jointly develop a range of applications for Intel-based systems over the next decade, including MS-DOS, Microsoft LAN, and Microsoft OS/2.

Atari announced its 1040STe computer featuring “Enhanced Capabilities for Home, MIDI Applications,” 8-bit stereo sound.

Atari released its STacy computer, a portable version of the 1040ST. The system featured an 8 MHz Motorola MC 68000 processor, 4 MHz RAM, a keyboard, a trak-ball, a 3.5″ floppy drive, and either a 20 or 40 MB hard drive.

Atari released the True 32-bit Bus System. It featured a 16 MHz Motorola 68030 processor, 2 MB RAM, a 50 MB harddrive, and two serial ports. Price: $2,995.

1990

The first webpage in history was created and posted to the internet by pioneer Tim Berners-Lee. The page contains Berners-Lee’s notes, specifications for HTML, HTTP, and URI, along with other information related to his World Wide Web project.

United States President George Bush presented Jack St. Clair Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, and nine other science pioneers the prestigious National Medal of Technology for the “well-being of the nation through the development or application of technology.” Kilby was awarded specifically “For his invention and contributions to the commercialization of the integrated circuit and the silicon thermal print-head; for his contributions to the development of the first computer using integrated circuits; and for the invention of the hand-held calculator, and gate array.”

1996

Advanced Micro Devices released its K6 processor at speeds of 166 to 200 MHz.

2000

Intel released its Celeron processors in 733 and 766 MHz clockspeeds. Price: $112 / $170 each in 1,000-unit quantities.

2004

The open source Internet forum system IceBB was first publicly released.

2006

Google completed its acquisition of the video host Youtube for an headline-grabbing $1.65 billion.

Linux Mint 2.0 was released. Code-name: Barbara.

Sun Microsystems announced that it would make its HotSpot, Java Compiler, and Java source code available under the GNU General Public License.

This post is part of the series: A Chronology of Computer History for the Month of November: This Day in Computer History

This series provides a daily account of what happened on this day in the history of computing and technology. It discusses developments, breaking news, new releases and global implications that occurred as a result of these ground breaking events.

1. This Day in Computer History: November 4
2. This Day in Computer History: November 5
3. This Day in Computer History: November 6
4. This Day in Computer History: November 7
5. This Day in Computer History: November 9
6. This Day in Computer History: November 10
7. This Day in Computer History: November 11
8. This Day in Computer History: November 12
9. This Day in Computer History: November 13
10. This Day in Computer History: November 14
11. This Day in Computer History: November 15
12. This Day in Computer History: November 16
13. This Day in Computer History: November 17
14. This Day in Computer History: November 18
15. This Day in Computer History: November 19
16. This Day in Computer History: November 20
17. This Day in Computer History: November 21
18. This Day in Computer History: November 22
19. This Day in Computer History: November 24
20. This Day in Computer History: November 25
21. This Day in Computer History: November 26
22. This Day in Computer History: November 27
23. This Day in Computer History: November 28
24. This Day in Computer History: November 29
25. This Day in Computer History: November 30