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Apple, IBM, and Motorola announce an alliance to create the PowerPC on October 2, 1991. The PowerPC machines are based on IBM's Power microprocessor, one of the first superscalar RISC implementations. The alliance creates two other companies, Taligent and Kaleida Labs. Taligent will develop an object-oriented operating system for the PowerPC. Kaleida Labs will develop multimedia software, tools and scripting languages.

In 1973, IBM ships the model 3340 Winchester sealed hard disk drive, the predecessor of all current hard disk drives. Nearly two decades earlier, IBM had developed the first computer with a hard disk drive, the IBM 305. The 305's disk drive came with fifty 24-inch platters and a total capacity of five million characters.

Bellcore researcher Joseph Lechleider originates broadband technologies in the late 1980s. He demonstrates the feasibility of sending broadband signals via telephone lines, which starts the movement from analog to digital. This research effort eventually spawns new transmission technologies such as Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL).

Computer Science professor Edsger W. Dijkstra writes his classic programming paper "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" in the Communications of the ACM in March 1968. This paper outlines Dijkstra's observation that the quality of programmers is a decreasing function of the density of GO TO statements in the programs they produce.

What is the longest Internet domain name in the world? According to the domain registrars, the longest legal domain name is 63 characters starting with a letter or number. The longest domain name in the world reportedly belongs to the official homepage of a Welsh, United Kingdom village called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.