Osborne Computer Corp. was founded in the U.S. in 1981 with the proceeds from the sale of Osborne's previous venture in publishing computer manuals.
(I was born in 1975, the same year the homebrew computer club was founded, I believe. Great timing, eh?).
That has been a significant advantage for Sun, the Mountain View, Calif., computer maker that was founded to manufacture technical work stations in the early 1980's.
Despite not playing a major role, the myth was enough to see the garage designated as a listed historical site in 2013, joining the garage where computer company Hewlett-Packard was founded in the neighbouring town of Palo Alto.
Many are clustered in Zhongguancun, a district in the west of the city, where computer giant Lenovo was founded in the 1980s.
Blue Sky Studios, which earned an Oscar in 1998 for its computer animated short "Bunny," was founded in Ossining in 1987.
In 1937 the Mathematical Laboratory, which used mechanical computers for scientific projects, was founded at Cambridge.
Seculert was founded by computer security veterans Ron Kraitsman, Alex Milstein, Aviv Raff and Dudi Matot.
The startup was founded by computer scientist Peter Halacsy and renowned artist and graphic designer Adam Somlai-Fischer, who has just won the World Technology Award (WTA) for Arts together with his partner Usman Haque (other awards were given to people like Mark Zuckerberg, Lawrence Lessig and Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda).
Sense Networks was founded by MIT computer scientist Alex Pentland and Columbia computer scientist Tony Jebara back in May, 2003.
The bridegroom's father is a senior vice president for deposit and computer operations at National Capital Bank of Washington, which was founded by his great-grandfather 117 years ago.
