The Apple I
personal computer is introduced by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Also
in 1976, Jobs and Wozniak leave their jobs at Atari and Hewlett-Packard
to form the Apple computer company.
Cray Research produces the Cray-1
supercomputer. "The first Cray 1 system was installed at Los Alamos
National Laboratory in 1976 for $8.8 million. It boasted a world-record
speed of 160 million floating-point operations per second (160
megaflops) and an 8 megabyte (1 million word) main memory." (Source: Cray History)
Although for most people it was just a fad, during the middle and late 1970s the CB (Citizens Band) radio was a popular personal communication device. Short-distance CB radios were considered a cutting-edge technology of their day.
A British teletext standard is developed that is different from earlier BBC and Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) services. (During the 1970s both the Ceefax and Oracle British teletext services are launched. See also: "Ceefax marks 30 years of service." BBC, Sept. 22, 2004.)
News Examples: July 4, 1976 -- Bicentennial, Nov. 3, 1976 -- Presidential Election, New York Times. (Abstracts available from the Infobank database service.)
