In 1966, Surveyor 1 was the first US space probe to have a soft landing on the Moon. The Soviet Union was the first when the Russian probe Luna 9 had a successful soft landing on the moon on February 3rd of that year. The […]

In 1956, Tim Paterson, the author of MS-DOS, was born. MS-DOS was the most widely used operating system in the 1980s. Read more about Tim Paterson at http://www.patersontech.com/dos/micronews/paterson04_10_98.htm

In 2001
, Microsoft released the Microsoft Office XP office suite. The XP version included enhanced features that enabled users to link to the Internet and collaborate with co-workers on projects. Learn more at http://money.cnn.com/2001/05/31/technology/microsoft/index.htm   In 2005, 
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) released the Athlon 64

In 1979, Percom Data Company released MICRODOS for Radio Shack’s TRS-80. MICRODOS was the only TRS-80 disk operating system that made no attempt at TRSDOS compatibility. It was later known at OS-80. Learn more at http://www.trs-80.org/microdos/

In 1919, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is tested and confirmed. Arthur Eddington conducted an expedition to observe the solar eclipse of May 29th, 1919 that provided one of the earliest confirmations of relativity. Learn more at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=did-researchers-cook-data-from-first-general-relativity-test

In 1987 
CompuServe released the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) standard as a new format to save and retrieve computer-based images. The GIF format supports up to 8 bits per pixel, allowing a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colors. The

In 1988, 
Microsoft released two versions of Windows 2.1. Two versions were released to specifically takes advantage of advanced features of the Intel 80286 and Intel 80386 processors. Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.1x