106 results for: Computers and Technology
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Carl Stork with Microsoft demonstration disk, Redmond, February 1987
In the 1980s, Microsoft was helping with research and development of a new technology to store and access computer files – the CD-ROM. Standing for “compact disk, read-only memory,” the CD-ROM could store about 1,500 times more data than the then-standard floppy disk. In order to increase interest in CD-ROMs, in 1987 Microsoft created an electronic encyclopedia as a demonstration…
ID Number:2000.107.206.15.01
Date:1987
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Edward Wang and his family in Redmond, February 1989
Edward Wang was born in Taiwan and moved to the US at age 30 to work as a salesman for Microsoft. Despite his family's urgings to remain home, Wang decided to leave in order to see other countries and advance in the world. This photograph was taken for a Post-Intelligencer special report in 1989 about changes occurring in mainland China,…
ID Number:2000.107.222.03.05
Date:1989
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Bill Gates at Microsoft Campus, Redmond, January 22, 1991
Microsoft, a multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company moved to Bellevue, Washington in 1979 and incorporated in 1981. The company has grown to become the world's largest software maker and a leader in cloud enterprise technology. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (William H.…
ID Number:2000.107.19910122.1.23
Date:1991
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Bill Gates at Microsoft Campus, Redmond, January 22, 1991
Microsoft, a multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company moved to Bellevue, Washington in 1979 and incorporated in 1981. The company has grown to become the world's largest software maker and a leader in cloud enterprise technology.Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (William H. Gates…
ID Number:2000.107.19910122.2.02
Date:1991
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Microsoft campus, March 10, 1991
Microsoft, a multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company moved to Bellevue, Washington, in 1979 and incorporated in 1981. The company has grown to become the world's largest software maker and a leader in cloud enterprise technology.In 1986, Microsoft moved its headquarters from…
ID Number:2000.107.19910310.1.04
Date:1991
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Woman wearing Virtual Vision Sport headset, December 18, 1992
In 1992, the Redmond-based company Virtual Vision, founded by local tech pioneer Gordon Kuenster, developed the Virtual Vision Sport eyeglasses. Borrowing from virtual reality technology, the lightweight device displayed what appeared to be a big-screen television picture to the wearer, by using a tiny LCD screen and mirror attached inside one of the eyepieces, with earbuds for sound at each…
ID Number:2000.107.19921218.1.09
Date:1992
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Wayne Hamilton at Nintendo Distribution Center, North Bend, 1992
In this image, Wayne Hamilton shows off two of the four “automated guided vehicles” that run Nintendo of America’s distribution center in North Bend, Washington. Hamilton was Nintendo’s director of distribution. The vehicles automatically move pallets of game cartridges through the facility using electronic paths embedded in the floor and carry them to the automated storage and retrieval shelves (visible…
ID Number:2000.107.19921222.5.31
Date:1992
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Colman Elementary School students working at computers, Seattle, February 8, 1993
In 1991, Seattle voters approved a $22 million technology levy for schools, ensuring that nearly all schools would have enough classroom computers for their students. At the same time, the disparity between children's access to computer technology at home was stark. In 1993, administrators at Colman and Hawthorne elementary schools, located in largely minority neighborhoods in Seattle’s Central Area and…
ID Number:2000.107.19930208.8.20
Date:1993
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Colman Elementary School students working at computers, Seattle, February 8, 1993
In 1991, Seattle voters approved a $22 million technology levy for schools, ensuring that nearly all schools would have enough classroom computers for their students. At the same time, the disparity between children's access to computer technology at home was stark. In 1993, administrators at Colman and Hawthorne elementary schools, located in largely minority neighborhoods in Seattle’s Central Area and…
ID Number:2000.107.19930208.8.23
Date:1993
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Ken Griffey, Jr. at press conference announcing Nintendo game, Seattle, May 11, 1993
In May 1993, Nintendo of America and Major League Baseball held a press conference at the Kingdome to announce an agreement between 23-year-old Mariners center fielder Ken Griffey, Jr. and Nintendo to produce the Redmond corporation's first attempt at a game named after a live character. Billed as the most realistic baseball video game ever, the game featured real Major…
ID Number:2000.107.19930511.1.05
Date:1993