Turning Points in Computer Education - History of Computing: Learning from the Past - page 167

Table 1. ( Continued )

1977 TRS 80, Commodore PET, Apple

II, Atari released

American in Junior College.
Hated FORTRAN IV Classes

1978 Vax 11/780 and 51/4 inch floppies

released

Aussie obtains Apple II for
demonstration

1979 USENET, Visicalc and Motorola

68000 released

American changes to U Texas and
loves Pascal, pursues computer
science degree

1980 First hard disk for personal

computers from Seagate

Aussie buys Apple II for home,
first PC lab of Apple II in school

1981 First IBM PC with MS-DOS,

Osborne portable computer 3.5
inch disks

1982 Commodore 64, Lotus 123 Aussie uses USENET and email;

American graduates and works for
Conoco as FORTRAN 77
programmer/analyst

1983 TCP/IP, Apple Lisa, Compac PC

clone

1984 Apple Mac, IBM PC AT Aussie school changes to IBM

PC, American part time teaching

1985 American becomes full time

college computer science
instructor. Lab of PCs

1986 Aussie organises conferences in

computing using email and
USENET

1991 Linux American completes Masters in

Comp Sci

1993 Mosaic web browser released for

UNIX, Mac, Windows, Amiga
versions in 1994

1994 Yahoo founded

1995 American completes PhD in

Information Systems. First use of
WWW