In 1982 Time Announces Machine of the Year. Franklin comes out with the Franklin ACE 100 & Franklin ACE 1000 Lotus 123 is released Sun Microsystems is established In 1992 DEC Alpha architecture is released On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:47 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
As part of the brainstorming for VCF East themes we came up with anniversaries. I am sharing them here. I'm sure that there are many more that we missed, so this list isn't exhaustive, but these are the most interesting and important that came to mind when brainstorming. I thought I would share to inspire and as an FYI.
Space War = 1962
Removable Storage = 1962
C programming = 1972
Magnavox Odyssey = 1972
Pong = 1972
Bell’s Law = 1972
Commodore 64 = 1982
Timex Sinclair = 1982
Tron = 1982
Knight Rider = 1982
Linux = 1992
Vintage Computer Festival = 1997
========================================= Jeff Brace VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner VCF Mid-Atlantic Executive Director Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org