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Hewlett Packard 85 | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1980-1984 Technical Specifications: Processor: Capricorn, 0.62 MHz RAM: 16 KB FDD: - HDD: - Audio: Tone generator Connectors/Ports: four expansion slots, cartridge Case: Keyboard type Monitor: Monochrome OS: BASIC The Hewlett ...
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Chicago Pile-1 | World's first artificial nuclear reactor built | Techday, December 2nd On this TECHDAY in history, on December 2nd 1942, the world’s first artificial, self-sustaining, nuclear chain reaction took place. It happened in the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor “Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1)”, which was ...
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Thomson MO6 | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1986 Technical Specifications: Processor: Motorola MC 6809e, 1 MHz RAM: 128 KB FDD: - HDD: - Audio: Seven octaves , three channels Connectors/Ports: Cartridge slot, RGB, bus, light pen, cassette, parallel, joystick, mouse, audio Case: Keyboard ...
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Launch of Project Gutenberg by Michael S. Hart | Techday, December 1st On this TECHDAY in history, on December 1st 1971, Project Gutenberg began by Michael S. Hart, an American writer. He is considered the father of eBooks and decided to begin this project (while he was still a university student with access to ...
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Acorn Archimedes | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1987- 1989 Technical Specifications: Processor: ARM-2, 8 MHz RAM: 512 kB FDD: Floppy disk 3.5" (800KB) HDD: - Audio: Eight voices Connectors/Ports: RGB, serial, parallel, video, internet, four expansion slots Case: Desktop type ...
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Birthday of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose | A radio pioneer | Techday, November 30th On this TECHDAY in history, on November 30th 1858, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was born. His birthplace was a province of British India, nowadays Bangladesh. He is considered one of radio science’s fathers. A physicist, a biologist, a ...
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Didaktik M | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1990 Technical Specifications: Processor: Zilog Z80A, 4MHz RAM: 64 KB FDD: - HDD: - Audio: Beeper, one voice, five octaves Connectors/Ports: two joystick, video output Case: Keyboard type Monitor: Color OS: BASIC The Didaktik M has a ...
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Birthday of John Ambrose Fleming | Inventor of vacuum tubes | Techday, November 29th On this TECHDAY in history, on November 29th 1849, John Ambrose Fleming was born. He was an English electrical engineer and the inventor (and name-giver) of the Thermionic valve (vacuum-tube) diode. This invention restricted the ...
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Apple III | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1980-1984 Technical Specifications: Processor: Synetrek 6502B, 1.8MHz RAM:128 KB FDD: one disk 5.25" HDD: - Audio: 1 channel, 7 octaves Connectors/Ports: serial, floppy disk, four internal slots, monitor Case: Desktop type Monitor: Color OS: ...
