November 15, 1971: The computer revolution gets 3 major boosts, although the wider world won't know about any of them for years to come. Intel releases the world's 1st microprocessor, the 4004.
My mother worked in a bank in downtown Newark in 1965. She said they had a computer that took up an entire wall of a building. But computers began to shrink, and after 1971, they would get smaller. By 1977, there would be desktop computers.
It was also around this time, although I can't find an exact date for either, that Ray Tomlinson, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, sent the 1st email (he preferred the unhyphenated spelling over "e-mail"); and that IBM introduced the floppy disk, then 8 inches square.
In 1997, for his work as Chairman of Intel, and guiding it to a leading place in the tech boom, Andrew Grove was named Time magazine's Man of the Year.
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November 15, 1971 was a Monday. Baseball was out of season. No games were scheduled for either the NBA, the ABA, or the NHL. On ABC Monday Night Football, the San Diego Chargers beat the football version of the St. Louis Cardinals, 20-17 at San Diego Stadium, which would later be renamed Jack Murphy Stadium and Qualcomm Stadium.
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