Modern Era · North America · Technology
1975
Microsoft and Apple begin
1975
Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a small company to sell a BASIC interpreter for the Altair hobbyist computer. A year later in a Los Altos garage, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs put together something they called the Apple I. Personal computing had found its two future giants, both still in their twenties and working in jeans.
In context
Also in 1975 (6 other events on record)
- Khmer Rouge take Phnom Penh · Southeast Asia · Politics
- Fall of Saigon · Southeast Asia · War
- Franco dies · Europe · Politics
- Indira Gandhi imposes Emergency · South Asia · Politics
- Angola and Mozambique win independence · Africa · Politics
- Jaws invents the summer blockbuster · North America · Culture
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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