Fairchild Semiconductor, which helped pioneer the development of the silicon transistor, in the nineteen-fifties, was a military contractor, as were many other technology firms that helped launch the modern computer industry, such as Texas Instruments.
The Altair helped to launch the personal computer revolution – Paul Allen and Bill Gates of Microsoft even wrote their first software for the microcomputer.
The works Warhol created to commission in 1985 to help launch the Amiga 1000 computer are not earth-shattering in themselves.
Patrick Suppes, a philosopher of science and a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who helped to launch the use of computers in the classroom, died Nov. 17 of natural causes at his home on the campus of Stanford University, where he taught for more than 60 years.
Sugar launched the Amstrad computer as a low-cost alternative to the IBM and Mac versions, on the assumption that computers would only ever be used as word processors.
While Bixby will launch with the computer vision chops of its Vision feature and the deluxe notifications screen it calls Bixby Home, Samsung has detailed that the assistant's hallmark feature, Bixby Voice, will be unavailable to US customers until "later this spring".
After all, Jobs launched the personal computer industry as we know it with the Macintosh.
This wasn't 1984, the year that Apple aired its famous groundbreaking Orwellian-themed TV ad "1984″ which launched the Macintosh computer.
For some models, you might need to launch the program itself on the computer to turn it on.
All they need to do is insert a wireless modem card into the network adapter card slot of their laptop, contact a service provider and launch the browser on their computer's desktop.
