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Amstrad 6128 Plus | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1990 Technical Specifications: Processor: Zilog Z80A, 4 MHz RAM: 64 or 128 KB FDD: Floppy 3" HDD: - Audio: Eight octaves, three stereo voices, one noise channel Connectors/Ports: Cartridge, two joystick, stereo sound, lightpen, parallel, RGB, ...
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Microsoft almost split in two | Techday, June 7th On this TECHDAY in history, on June 7th 2000, Microsoft almost split in two. A United States Judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft into two companies: one focused on developing operating systems and one focused on researching and developing other applications. ...
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Release of Tetris | One of the most famous videogames of all times released | Techday, June 6th On this TECHDAY in history, on June 6th 1984, the first version of one of the most famous games of all time, Tetris, was released in Moscow. Designed by Russian computer engineer Alexei Pajitnov on the Electronica 60 ...
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Hot-air balloon flight | Public demonstration of the Montgolfier brothers flight | Techday, June 5th On this TECHDAY in history, on June 5th 1783, the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated the ascent of an unmanned hot-air balloon 11m. in diameter. On 19 September of the same year, their balloon ...
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DRAM patent | Techday, June 4th On this TECHDAY in history, on June 4th 1968, marked the awarding of patent No. 3387286. Dr Robert Dennard recieved this award for the realization of the first dynamic random access memory (DRAM). This type of RAM gradually became prevalent in the 1970s and remains so today, ...
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Dedication of the Hale Telescope | Techday, June 3rd The Hale Telescope is a 200 inch (5.1 m), reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US. The name derived from the astronomer George Ellery Hale. While not quite completed, it was dedicated as the Hale Telescope on this ...
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NASA's soft landing on the Moon | Surveyor 1 landing on the Ocean of Storms | Techday, June 2nd Surveyor 1 was launched on the 30th of May 1966, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and it landed succesfully on the Ocean of Storms, on the Moon, on this TECHDAY in history, on June ...
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Thomas Edison first patent | Techday, June 1st One of America's most famous inventors, Thomas Edison, got his first patent on this TECHDAY in history, on June 1st 1869. The device was called the "electrographic vote recorder". It would record a legislator's opinion of yes or no. He executed his application on 13 ...
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Tulip System I | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1983 Technical Specifications: Processor: Intel 8086, 8 MHz RAM: 128 to 896 KB FDD: Floppy 400 KB or 800 KB HDD: - Audio: Connectors/Ports: Monitor, external FDD, external HDD Case: Keyboard type Monitor: Monochrome OS: CP/M The ...
