The Z3 computer is presented by German engineer Konrad Zuse in May 1941 to an audience of scientists in Berlin. The Z3 is credited as the world's first electronic programmable calculator and is used by the German aircraft industry to solve complex systems of simultaneous equations. The original Z3 computer is destroyed during bombing raids of World War II.
]]>Apple Computer hires Tony Fadell in early 2001 and assigns him a team
of designers, programmers and hardware engineers to develop a new music
player called the iPod. Fadell's idea is to take an MP3 player, build a
music sale service to complement it, and build a company around it.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is highly involved with the project since its
inception and molds the device's shape, feel and design.
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On the morning of May 26, 1992, Adobe Systems cofounder and President Charles Geschke is kidnapped at gunpoint in broad day light from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California. He is held for $650,000 ransom for four days while the FBI searches for him. He is located in Hollister, California, freed, and returned to his family. The two kidnappers are sentenced to life terms in prison.