The first IBM virus and Apple reach a number landmark. All on today’s On This Day from TEST Huddle.
1986 – The first IBM virus
The first virus program for the IBM PC is discovered. The virus called ©Brain infects the boot sector of 360kB floppy disks formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table (FAT). The virus slows down the floppy disk drive and makes seven kilobytes of memory unavailable to DOS. ©Brain was written by Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, two brothers from Pakistan, who later told Time magazine that they had written the virus as a copy protection for their medical software with no intention of it spreading beyond copyright infringers.
2001 – Apple ships its millionth Power Mac
Apple Computer announces it has shipped the millionth Power Macintosh computer to date. The machine has maintained huge popularity since its launch in March 1994.
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