What Happened in July Jul 01 1646 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Born Jul 02 1953 IBM Announces the Model 650 Computer Jul 03 1997 New Law in California for Ergonomic Standards Jul 04 1956 MIT's Whirlwind Allows Keyboard Input to the Machine Jul 05 1994 Intel Announces Price Cuts to Thwart Competitors Jul 06 1996 America Online Settles Lawsuits Jul 07 1752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard Born Jul 08 1946 Penn Launches a Special Computer School Jul 09 1982 Disney Releases the Tron Movie Jul 10 1962 Telstar Satellite Launched Jul 11 1976 Last Slide Rule Manufactured Today Jul 12 1949 IBM's Watson Believes Electronics Will Replace Moving Parts Jul 13 1992 IBM, Toshiba, and Siemens Alliance to Develop Memory Chips Jul 14 1918 Core Memory Inventor Forrester Born Jul 15 1928 ENIGMA Introduced into German Army Jul 16 1951 VisiCalc Creator Born Jul 17 1997 Major Disruption in Sending Most E-Mail Messages Jul 18 1968 Intel Founded Jul 19 1983 The First Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of a Human Head via Computed Tomography (CT) is Published Jul 20 1976 First Robot Viking I Lands on Mars Jul 21 1975 Xerox Withdraws from the Mainframe Computer Market Jul 22 1997 Apple Announces OS 8 Jul 23 1930 Computer Educator McCracken Born. Jul 24 1951 Transistor Inventor Leaves Bell Labs Jul 25 1990 Microsoft Revenues Exceed $1 Billion Jul 26 1996 AT&T and Microsoft Ally to Promote Internet Explorer Jul 27 1997 Computers Could Have Prevented Murder of Fashion Designer Jul 28 1997 Dell Workstation 400 Introduced Jul 29 1996 Mpath Interactive Acquires Catapult Entertainment Jul 30 1889 Iconoscope Inventor Vladimir Zworykin Born Jul 31 1996 SGI COO Tom Jermoluk Resigns, Becomes CEO of @Home
