106 results for: Computers and Technology
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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:2000.107.19930511.1.08
Date:1993
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Saros Corp. executives at their Bellevue office, May 1993
Bellevue-based Saros Corporation began in 1986, when founders Wayne Carpenter and Mike Kennewick saw the need for a product to manage the masses of unstructured information floating around in corporate computer networks. They brought together software engineers from the PC world and from the world of multiprocessor mainframe computers to develop a solution to the problem of storing, tracking, and…
ID Number:2000.107.19930513.1.39
Date:1993
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Executives at Attachmate Corp. office, Bellevue, June 9, 1993
The software company Attachmate Corporation was founded in 1982 by Frank W. Pritt and Tom Borkowski, and would become one of the major technology employers in the Seattle area. The company focused initially on the IBM terminal emulation market, later linking desktop PCs to IBM host computers with its connectivity software. In 2005, Attachmate merged with another major Seattle-area tech…
ID Number:2000.107.19930609.5.14
Date:1993
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John Jessen of Electronic Evidence Discovery in his office, Seattle, November 12, 1993
John H. Jessen founded Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. in 1988 after a lawyer friend asked his advice about searching for evidence stored on personal computers (PCs). Jessen realized that electronic information stored on company computers could also be important to corporate legal work, and used his knowledge of both business and computers to launch his new company. In 2008, Electronic…
ID Number:2000.107.19931112.1.11
Date:1993
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David Cole of Microsoft with pickup truck, Redmond, February 15, 1995
Microsoft scheduled the release of Windows 95 for August 1995. With the huge growth of the personal computer software market, the company had to make sure that the complex new release was as trouble-free as possible. David Cole, Microsoft’s general manager for the testing and debugging effort, was quoted as saying that the new software is supposed to make PCs…
ID Number:2000.107.19950215.1.13
Date:1995
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Bill Gates and Priscilla Wong at Minority Student Day at Microsoft, Redmond, October 26, 1995
Bill Gates and Paul Allen began working on microcomputers while still at Seattle’s Lakeside School. They founded Microsoft in 1975, and nearly a decade later, the company was recognized as the world's most powerful producer of microcomputer software. In the 1990s, a group of Black employees of Microsoft began holding an annual Minority Student Day program to encourage minority students…
ID Number:2000.107.19951026.4.35
Date:1995
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Jerry Dyer working at Microsoft's Redmond campus, June 25, 1996
MSNBC, a partnership between Microsoft and NBC News, was launched on July 15, 1996 as both a 24-hour cable TV news channel and interactive Internet site. While ultimate editorial control over content was held by NBC, Microsoft also developed reporting staff at its Redmond headquarters to generate and report its own stories. Reporters based at Microsoft focused on world economics,…
ID Number:2000.107.19960625.4.15
Date:1996
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Ben Slivka of Microsoft, August 9, 1996
Software developer Ben Slivka worked at Microsoft from 1985 to 1999. Slivka worked on OS/2, MS-DOS 6.0 and 6.2, and Windows 95 before leading the programming team in charge of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0, the third version of the web browser in a little over a year. This photograph of Ben Slivka accompanied an article about the frantic pace of…
ID Number:2000.107.19960809.1.29
Date:1996
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Bill Gates and Microsoft executives on panel at conference, Redmond, October 10, 1996
On October 10, 1996, Microsoft held a day-long conference at its Redmond headquarters where it unveiled the redesign of Microsoft Network (MSN). When it was originally released, bundled with Windows 95, MSN was a proprietary, fee-based information service, competing with other online services like AOL and CompuServe. The new version moved MSN from a proprietary online server to an Internet…
ID Number:2000.107.19961010.1.09
Date:1996
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Visio president Jeremy Jaech, Seattle, March 21, 1997
Jeremy Jaech and two other Aldus executives established Axon Corporation in Seattle in 1990 to create business graphics software for personal computers. At the time, little had been developed in the way of drawing tools with business applications. To fill the need, Jaech and his colleagues founded Visio Corporation and created the design product Visio. Some 800 people worked for…
ID Number:2000.107.19970321.15.27
Date:1997