| Ref: |
Day |
Month |
Timeline event |
Cat: |
| E2253 |
29 |
Jan |
Bell Labs demonstrate the first all-optical processor |
4 |
| E2254 |
|
Jan |
Letraset ColorStudio, launched as a competitor for Photoshop |
9 |
| E2255 |
|
Jan |
Microsoft Office for Windows |
9 |
| E2256 |
|
Feb |
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 |
9 |
| E2257 |
|
Mar |
Adobe Postscript Type 1 Fonts |
9 |
| E3918 |
1 |
Mar |
US Secret Service raided the offices of Steve Jackson Games, said to be investigating computer crime |
8 |
| E2258 |
|
Mar |
Apple Mac IIfx |
1 |
| E2259 |
|
Mar |
HP Laserjet III laser printer |
10 |
| E2260 |
|
Mar |
Jean-Louis Gassée finishes as president of Apple |
1 |
| E2261 |
|
Mar |
Microsoft Entertainment Pack Volume 1 for Windows |
9 |
| E2262 |
24 |
Apr |
Commodore Amiga 3000 |
1 |
| E2263 |
|
Apr |
ASUS founded in Taiwan by Wayne Hsieh, Ted Hus, MT Liao and Th Tung |
1 |
| E2264 |
22 |
May |
Microsoft Windows 3.0 - a million copies sold in four months |
9 |
| E2265 |
|
May |
Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Project for Windows |
9 |
| E2266 |
26 |
Jun |
IBM PS/1 |
1 |
| E2267 |
|
Jun |
Adobe Type Manager for Windows |
9 |
| E2268 |
|
Jun |
Jon Shirley resigns as President of Microsoft |
9 |
| E2269 |
|
Jul |
Acer acquired Altos Computer Systems |
1 |
| E2270 |
|
Jul |
Acorn R225 and R260 |
1 |
| E2271 |
|
Aug |
Apple releases OS 3.3 |
9 |
| E2272 |
|
Aug |
Gilbert Hyatt receives the patent for a single-chip computer, plan how he will collect licence fees |
4 |
| E3919 |
|
Aug |
Symantec and Peter Norton Computing merged and launched Norton Antivirus |
9 |
| E2273 |
|
Sep |
Sharp PC-6200 Notebook |
1 |
| E2274 |
6 |
Oct |
Sega Game Gear, handheld console, sold 11m units |
7 |
| E2275 |
15 |
Oct |
Apple Macintosh Classic and Apple Macintosh IIsi |
1 |
| E2276 |
|
Oct |
FileMaker Pro, Claris |
9 |
| E2277 |
|
Oct |
Microsoft Office Suite launched |
9 |
| E2278 |
21 |
Nov |
Nintendo Super Famicom, designed by Masayuki Uemura, launched in Japan, would go on to sell 49m units |
7 |
| E2279 |
|
Nov |
Berkeley Softworks GeoWorks Ensemble software |
9 |
| E2280 |
|
Nov |
CorelDRAW Version 2 |
9 |
| E2281 |
|
Nov |
IBM PS/2 Model 75 Portable |
1 |
| E2282 |
|
Nov |
Michael Spindler became president of Apple |
1 |
| E2283 |
14 |
Dec |
Commander Keen shareware games released by Apogee Software |
8 |
| E2284 |
|
Dec |
Tim Berners-Lee creates the world's first Web server using a NeXT computer |
11 |
| E2285 |
|
|
3D Studio launched by Autodesk |
9 |
| E2286 |
|
|
Alan Emtage and Bill Helan release Archie browser |
11 |
| E2287 |
|
|
Amstrad CPC 464+, CPC 6128+ and GX 4000 released |
1 |
| E2288 |
|
|
Apple Macintosh LC - low-cost colour |
1 |
| E3920 |
|
|
ARM, Advanced RISC Machines, hived off from Acron by Herman Hauser |
4 |
| E2289 |
|
|
ARPANET officially decommissioned, as the Internet had taken over the service |
11 |
| E2290 |
|
|
CD-E CD Erasable - became CD-RW |
10 |
| E2291 |
|
|
CD-MO - CD Magneto Optical - superceded by CD-RW |
10 |
| E2292 |
|
|
CD-R, Compact Disk - Recordable |
10 |
| E2293 |
|
|
Claris acquires Filemaker, renames it FileMaker II |
9 |
| E2294 |
|
|
Commodore 64 Games System launched |
1 |
| E2295 |
|
|
Commodore C286-LT Portable |
1 |
| E2296 |
|
|
Compaq Portable SLT/286 1903 |
1 |
| E2297 |
|
|
Electronic Frontier Foundation formed to protect online services |
12 |
| E2298 |
|
|
General Magic founded by Apple emigrees Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat |
9 |
| E2299 |
|
|
IBM 390 Series |
5 |
| E2300 |
|
|
IBM RS/6000 Model 550L |
1 |
| E2301 |
|
|
INMOS T-9000 Transputer launched |
4 |
| E3921 |
|
|
Layered Inc acquired by Peachtree Software |
9 |
| E2302 |
|
|
Lotus Improv |
9 |
| E2303 |
|
|
MacroMind Director 2.0 software for Mac |
9 |
| E2304 |
|
|
MacroMind Lingo language |
9 |
| E2305 |
|
|
Microsoft SQL Server 1.1 for Windows |
9 |
| E3922 |
|
|
Mitsubishi acquired Apricot Computers |
1 |
| E2306 |
|
|
NEC PC Engine GT aka Turbo Express, handheld console launched, sold 1.5m units |
7 |
| E2308 |
|
|
New Grolier Electronic Encyclopaedia |
9 |
| E2307 |
|
|
Nixdorf acquired by Siemens |
5 |
| E2309 |
|
|
NSFNET - was ARPANET |
11 |
| E2310 |
|
|
Panasonic Panacom PRO NOTE notebook |
1 |
| E2311 |
|
|
QuarkXpress 3.0 |
9 |
| E2312 |
|
|
SCSI-2 format agreed |
10 |
| E3923 |
|
|
Spyglass Inc founded as an offshoot of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to commercialize and support technologies created at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) |
9 |
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