The path to modern-day computing is longer than many suspect, and strewn with interesting nuggets of information. These include:
- the inventor of e-mail can't remember when he got it working- Pac-Man was modelled on a pizza and called Puck-Man until vandals forced a name change- the first hard drive had a 5MB capacity and could only be moved by a fork-lift truck- in 1980, The Times reported with wonder that a word processor could be bought for £3,500- Deep Blue's chess victory over Garry Kasparov was described as a 'psychological triumph'.
For full details of these milestones, and other gems from the Times Archive, read on...
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