November 2, 1815

Logician Boole Born

George Boole, the British creator of a mathematico-logical system that bears his name, is born in Lincoln, England. He began his career as a schoolteacher, writing articles on mathematics in his spare time. These investigations led to the book Mathematical Analysis of Logic.

Intel announced its 4004 processor and its chipset through an ad in Electronic News on November 15, 1971, making them the first complete CPU on one chip and the first commercially available microprocessor.

The building-block 4004 CPU held 2300 transistors. The microprocessor, the size of a little fingernail, delivered the same computing power as the first electronic computer built in 1946, which, in contrast, filled a room. Full technical details for the 4004 can be found in this January 1972 EDN story on the technology: One-Chip CPU available for low-cost dedicated computers.

147 years ago: On this day in 1867, the first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City. The advent of the ticker ultimately revolutionized the stock market by making up-to-the-minute prices available to investors around the country. Prior to this development, information from the New York Stock Exchange, which has been around since 1792, traveled by mail or messenger.

Windows 1.0 is released. – November 20, 1985

Windows 1.0 is a 16-bit graphical operating environment that was released on 20 November 1985. It was Microsoft’s first attempt to implement a multi-tasking graphical user interface-based operating environment on the PC platform. Windows 1.0 was the first version of Windows launched. It was succeeded by Windows 2.0.

November 29, 1972

Atari Announces Pong Game

Atari Corporation announces Pong, an early video game popular both at home and at video arcades. In Pong, players were represented by paddles that could move up and down to try to deflect a ball and keep it from passing into their goal. Despite simplistic graphics, Pong started a craze. Atari, founded by Nolan Bushnell, sold video games as well as computers on which to play the games.

November 21, 1969

First ARPANET Link Put Into Service

November 8, 1923

Integrated Circuit Co-Inventor Kilby Born

Jack Kilby is born in Jefferson City, Missouri. After several years of study at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin, Kilby began work at Texas Instruments Inc., where he invented the integrated circuit in 1958. With that invention, he proved that resistors and capacitors could exist on the same piece of semiconductor material.

The first integrated circuit consisted of a sliver of germanium with five components linked by wires. It was Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor, however, who made Kilby's invention practical—both men are thus credited with the invention of the IC.

November 3, 1937

Aiken Approaches IBM Attempting to Create Giant Brain

Howard H. Aiken (Harvard University) writes a letter to J.W. Bryce (IBM) starting a discussion on automatic calculating machinery for use in computing physical problems. This would lead to the creation of the Harvard Mark I, the fifty-one feet long, eight feet high, and weighing nearly five tons Giant Brain. With high-speed electromechanical units for multiplication and division, electromechanical tables of functions, three paper-tape interpolator units, 72 accumulating storage registers and 60 dial-switch constant register, all called into play by commands read from the punched-tape sequence control, the Harvard Mark I was the most powerful calculating machine of its day.

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