1969 – Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the manned moon landing.
1981 – Satya Pal Asija received the first US patent for a computer software program. It was called Swift-answer. The patent took seven years to issue, and the validity of software patents has been debated ever since.
1995 – Bill Gates’ Internet Tidal Wave
Bill Gates’ Internet Tidal Wave- Realizing his company had missed the boat in estimating the impact and popularity of the Internet, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates issue a memo titled, “The Internet Tidal Wave,” which signaled the company’s focus on the global network. In the memo, Gates declared that the internet was the “most important single development” since the IBM personal computer – a development that he was assigning “the highest level of importance.” Still, it is curious why it took someone who was regarded as a technology “innovator” so long to realize this.
1998 – AMD K6-2 Processor
At the beginnings of the AMD/ Inter battle, AMD brought out a processor to dual with Pentium II. The AMD K6-2 processor was a Super Socket 7 pin structure, which also was compatible with older Socket 7 motherboards. With 9.3 million transistors, the K6-2 had a CPU clock rate of 266 to 552 MHz. Of course, these were single-core processors and had frond=t side bus of either 66 or 100 MHz. The K6-2 also featured the MMX and 3DNow! Instruction set. The K6-2+ was added to keep up with Pentium III processors. The processor line only lasted.
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