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April 5: SATAN Security Administration Tool Released
By April 5, 2013

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed 1995- The program is called the Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks. But you may call it SATAN. The Perl written program – Written by Dan Famer and Wietse Venema –  was released to help network admins find vulnerabilities in their remote systems. There was a lot of controversy over the tool and it’s release, since it was the first user friendly tool.SATAN was never updated since, and has been replaced with: Nessus and SAINT. Wikazine – Full show notes for April 5 AOL unveils Netscape Navagator v. 6 Honeywell MicroSystem 6/10 Apple releases Boot Camp for dual booting Mac Book: Protecting Networks with SATAN

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January 8: Hollerith Tabulating Machine Patent
By January 8, 2013

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed 1889 – Herman Hollerith obtains a patent for his Tabulating machine. It’s a punch card system that will be used in compiling consensus statistics beginning in 1890.Wikazine – Full show notes for January 8 the DOJ drops the IBM anti-trust case Night Trap will get re-released when the video game industry puts out the new rating system. Netgear is founded Palm Pre is announced

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December 4: Cray X-MP/48 Supercomputer Begins Operation
By December 4, 2012

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed 1985 – The Cray X-mp/48 Supercomputer begins operation in San Diego Supercomputer Center in California. The $15 million dollar supercomputer could process 400 megaflops (200 per processor). It was a shared-memory parallel vector processor and supported 2 or 4 million 64-bit words of main memory in 16 or 32 banks. The first Cray didn’t get installed until October 1986. Cray X-MP/48 replaced the Cray-1. It was succeeded by the Cray Y-MP8/864 in 1990. Movies such as “the Last Starfighter” were rendered using the Cray Supercomputer. This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for December 4 OS/2 Standard 1.0 ships The EV1 – GM‘s General Market Electric car WordPress 2.7 is released

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November 4: Michael Dell Launches Dell Computers
By November 3, 2012

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Michael Dell starts building PC’s in Austin, TX in 1984. Also, UNIVAC was used to predict Dwight D Eisenhouser as president

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September 13: Osbourne Declares Bankruptcy
By September 12, 2012

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Day in Technology History for September 13 – Osbourne Computer declares Bankruptcy

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September 7: Illiac IV Retired
By September 6, 2012

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed 1981 – It was called the Illiac IVILLIAC IV and was the first large parallel processing computer. The computer was first planned by the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency who contracted the University of Illinois to build it. It was up and running until 81, when the Illiac IV was shut down. This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for September 7 Spore releases Seganet launches Apple admits they didn’t invent the iPod

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August 7: Palm Debuts Palm m100 line
By August 6, 2012

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Palm introduced a couple new devices in 2000, They beefed up the Palm V line with the Palm Vx and Palm VIIx. The company, however, decided to retire the Palm III line and start Palm m100. They debuted the 16MHz model with Palm OS 3.5 and a 2″x2″ monochrome LCD display for $149. The Palm VIIx was $449 and the Vx was $399. Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for August 7 IBM introduces the ASCC First Satellite photos of Earth were taken Apple releases the PowerMac G5

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July 11: Oracle 11g Released
By July 10, 2012

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed 2007 – Oracle releases what they called the $10 billion / year Database software in Oracle 11g. It was the first update since 2004. Oracle’s what as refered to as an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). It is produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation. Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for July 11 1969 - David Bowie releases Space Oddity 1987 - World population hits 5 billion 1991 – the Eclipse of the Century 2005 - PowerPC 970MP 2008 - iPhone 3G goes on sale

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