Amaya Toman Computers didn't always look like we know them today. In today's installment of our "historical" roundup, we're reminiscing about the Whirlwind computer, or rather the day the machine was first shown on TV. The year was 1951, and the computer in question appeared on one of the TV shows of the time. In the second part of the article, we will recall the acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
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The Whirlwind Computer on TV (1951)
On April 20, 1951, Edward R. Morrow's TV show "See It Now" featured the Whirlwind computer, which was created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The head of the relevant project, Jay Forrester, described the computer as a "reliable operating system". It was a digital computer, the development of which began in the second half of the forties of the last century. The Whirlwind was first put into operation in 1949. The Whirlwind computer ran thirty-five hours a week, using more than 5000 tubes and 11 germanium diodes.
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Sun Microsystems goes under Oracle (2009)
On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced that it was buying Sun Microsystems. The price at the time was $7,4 billion, including shares at $9,50 each. As part of the buyout, Oracle also acquired SPARC processors, the Java or MySQL programming language, and a number of other hardware and software products. The official final completion of the entire deal took place during the second half of January 2010. Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
