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The search for life | NASA launches the Phoenix Mars | Techday, August 4th On this TECHDAY in history, on 2007, the Phoenix Mars lander was launched by NASA. It would be the first spacecraft that touched down on the “arctic” region of Mars, with the goals of searching for water (even in ice form) and assessing the ...
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Newton MessagePad launch | Apple's first PDA release | Techday, August 3rd On this TECHDAY in history, on August 3rd 1993, Apple released a PDA, the Newton MessagePad to the market. It was one of the world’s first PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) devices, and the product from which this term originated. It didn’t ...
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Letter to Roosevelt | Albert Einstein's warnings on the potential development of atomic bombs | Techday, August 2nd On this TECHDAY in history, on August 2nd 1939, a letter was sent by Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein to the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Written by Szilard, with help from fellow Hungarian ...
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Microsoft Office first release | Techday, August 1st On this TECHDAY in history, on August 1st 1989, the first version of the Microsoft Office suite was introduced to the public. What is interesting is that that first version aimed for computers that ran on the Macintosh operating system. The Office would also ...
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First moon ride with Roving Vehicle (RV) | Apollo 15 mission's RV drive | Techday, July 31st On this TECHDAY in history, on July 31st 1971, humans drove a vehicle for the first time on the moon. That happened using the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), a battery-powered vehicle that was part of the Apollo 15 mission. The ...
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Tomy TUTOR | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1983-1985 Technical Specifications: Processor: TMS 9995, 2.7 MHz RAM: 16 KB FDD: - HDD: - Audio: Eight octaves , three channels Connectors/Ports: Cartridge , cassette tape, joystick , video or audio output , TV output Case: Keyboard type ...
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Birthday of Henry Ford | Founder of the Ford Motor Company | Techday, July 30th On this TECHDAY in history, on July 30th 1863, Henry Ford was born. He was one of the pioneers of American industrialism, a business magnate and the chief developer of a new and improved mass production technique, the assembly line. He ...
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Microsoft foundation | Techday, July 29th On this TECHDAY in history, on July 29th 1975, marks the first official mention of the name Micro-soft. This took place in a letter sent by Bill Gates to Paul Allen about their partnership. The Gates-Allen company was hastily formed in April of that year, solely to provide ...
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IBM System/23 release | Techday, July 28th On this TECHDAY in history, on July 28th 1981, the IBM System/23 Datamaster was released, only weeks before the release of the IBM-PC, that would forever change the computer market. The System/23 was a desktop computer that was an evolution of IBM's efforts in small ...
