"Let's Talk Computers"

"Let's Talk Computers" goes on the air in 1989. The radio show is hosted by Alan and Sandra Ashendorf, and features insider conversations covering the latest hardware, software, and computer innovations. The weekly show is based in Nashville, Tennessee and ranks as one of the longest running radio computer talk shows.
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Desk Set

The comedy movie "Desk Set" is released in 1957. Richard Sumner has been tasked with the computerization of the research department of a big television network. Research department head Bunny Watson's fear of losing her job is pitted against her attraction to Sumner.
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SAGE project

The first demonstrations of computer time-sharing systems are performed in the summer of 1962 by the U.S. Air Force's SAGE project at MIT. A time sharing operating system permits each user of a computer to behave as though he were in sole control of the computer. The primary developers of timesharing are MIT Professor Fernando Corbato and researchers John McCarthy and Ed Fredkin.
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Thomas Watson

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943.
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Bluetooth

Swedish company Ericsson initiates the Bluetooth Technology movement in 1994. Bluetooth is a wireless radio standard designed for low power, short-wave device communication. In February 1998, five major companies found the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). Today, many devices such as cell phones, PDAs, computers, and hands-free devices include integrated BlueTooth technology.
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Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

Thomas J. Watson, Jr. becomes CEO of IBM in May 1956. Over the next 15 years, Watson will transition IBM from the age of mechanical office equipment into the computer era during its most explosive period of growth. When Watson becomes CEO, IBM employs 72,500 people and has revenue of $892 million. When he steps down in 1971, there are more than 270,000 employees and revenue is $8.3 billion.
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The Network Computer

Oracle Corporation CEO Larry Ellison announces in 1997 his intention to replace the PC with a low-cost device called the Network Computer (NC). The NC is billed as being as simple as turning on a TV or answering a telephone. Due to incompatibility perceptions, the interest in the NC unit never comes to fruition. Sales come up about 99 million units short of Ellison's 100 million unit projection.
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