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2009 Calendar
I hope you enjoy the 2009 calendar. If you didn't receive one in the
mail you can download and print one of these files:
Here are the circled dates. I'll fill in the Anniversary
shortly before the date.
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Date |
Anniversary |
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January 1 |
The Year 2000 Bug Didn't Happen
A lot of money was spent preparing for an anticipated crisis
on January 1, 2000. On that day the world's computer systems were
going to grind to a halt because many programs weren't ready
to handle dates beyond 1999.
When the day arrived the
crisis didn't show up. Computer systems that weren't
updated didn't stop working. Sure there were a few
problems, but not many. I have a client that keeps an
old UNIX workstation with the date dialed back to 1999 so
he can use one problem program.
The event illustrated the power of hype and FUD (Fear,
Uncertainty, and Doubt). |
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February 26 |
Microsoft moves to corporate campus in Redmond,
Washington They had been in
Bellevue up until that time |
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March 13 |
Microsoft Stock Goes Public on this day in 1986
The weekly closing prices from that
time up until now can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/stock/default.mspx
It looks like a share of stock that
sells for on 3/10/2009 for $15.28 would have cost only 9.7
cents when it was originally issued. That's adjusting
for all the splits. The original purchase price was
$28. That's quite a increase.
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April 2 |
IBM and Microsoft announce OS/2
Microsoft jumped ship in favor of Windows
long time ago but you may be surprised to learn that IBM
continued selling OS/2 until 2005. |
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May 23 |
1995, John Gage, director of the Science Office for Sun
Microsystems, and Marc Andreessen, cofounder and executive
vice president at Netscape, announced to the SunWorldTM
audience that JavaTM
technology was real, it was official, and it was going to be
incorporated into Netscape NavigatorTM,
the world's portal to the Internet. |
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June 22 |
1912 British mathematician and computer pioneer
Alan Turing
born. |
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July 10 |
1962, Telstar
Satellite Launched |
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August 12 |
1981
IBM announces the 5150, the first IBM PC. |
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September 13 |
1956 IBM introduces the IBM 350 Disk File, the first hard
drive as part of the IBM RAMAC 305 computer |
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October 17 |
Apple Launches a New Music Device - The iPod |
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November 15 |
1971, Intel Launches the First Microprocessor - The 4004 |
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December 16 |
1947 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley
invent the transistor at Bell Laboratories |
The calendar design is by Cassidi Brickner of
10 Pound
Gorilla
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