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Commodore AMIGA 1200 | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1992-1996 Technical Specifications: Processor: Motorola 68EC020, 14 MHz RAM: 2 MB FDD: Floppy 3.5" HDD: - Audio: Stereo, four channels, 8 bit Connectors/Ports: Serial, external disk, expansion, audio, two joystick or mouse, video, hard ...
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Telstar launch | First international satellite for modern communications | Techday, July 10th On this TECHDAY in history, on July 10th 1962, Telstar was launched, it was the first international modern communications satellite. A product of AT&T Bell's laboratories and sponsored by a group of telecommunications ...
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Birthday of Edwin James Houston | Techday, July 9th On this TECHDAY in history, on July 9th 1847, Edwin James Houston was born. He was an American electrical engineer who, together with Elihu Thomson, experimented with electricity. Houston was the first to invent, patent and commercially manufacture arc ...
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Control Data Corporation, CDC founding | Techday, July 8th On this TECHDAY in history, on July 8th 1957, supercomputer company CDC (Control Data Corporation) was founded. It was one of the most important computer manufacturers, and the first to develop supercomputers. In the 1960s, when Seymour Cray (before ...
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PSone Launch | A smaller PlayStation console | Techday, July 7th On this TECHDAY in history, on July 7th 2000, the Sony PSone, the redesigned and smaller version of the highly successful PlayStation, which was in its 6th year of life that year, went on sale (in Japan). Launched alongside the PlayStation 2, the ...
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Lotus Development buyout | Techday, July 6th On this TECHDAY in history, on July 6th 1995, a $3.5 billion buyout of Lotus Development was completed by IBM. Lotus produced the popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software and the then-popular Lotus Notes. Microsoft Excel, a staple of the 1990s and now into the 2000s, ...
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Birth of Dolly the Sheep | Tech meets Biology in cloning | Techday, July 5th On this TECHDAY in history, on July 5th 1996, a female sheep, Dolly, the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell (from a mammary gland), was born. This proved that cloned organisms could be produced from mature cells taken ...
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Keyboard meets computer as input device | Techday, July 4th On this TECHDAY in history, in 1956, a keyboard was used for the first time as an input device in a computer (MIT’s Whirlwind, developed back at 1951). Previously, it was not common to use a keyboard to directly input data into computers. Early systems ...
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Zenith Data System Z 160 PC | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1984 Technical Specifications: Processor: Intel 8088, 4.78 MHz RAM: 128 KB FDD: - HDD: - Audio: Beeper Connectors/Ports: Parallel, four expansion, two serial Case: Desktop type Monitor: Monochrome OS: MS DOS or CP/M or PC ...
