April 7: ATOM Processor Launched

Apr 6, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Intel

Intel

2008- Intel launches their newest processor: the ATOM processor. It’s codename was Silverthorne. It is a ATOM Z single processor using the 45 nm die processes. The processor would run at 800 MHZ with a 512 L2 cache and 533 Front side bus.

Wikazine – Full show notes for April 7

• Sun lays off Scalable System Group Workforce
• AOL VoIP launches
• Publication of the RFC 1

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April 5: SATAN Security Administration Tool Released

Apr 4, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Geek

Hacker Troll Sock Puppet

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 vulnrabilities 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

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April 3: Microsoft a Monopoly

Apr 2, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Microsoft

Microsoft

2000 - US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues a forty-three page conclusions of law, ruling that Microsofttried to monopolize the web browser market. The next day, Microsoft stock drops 15% as an aftershock.

Wikazine – Full show notes for April 2

• Atari declares today Pac Man Day
• The first Telnet specification
• IBM introduces the PC Convertable

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March 28: BeOS Version 5 Maui Launched

Mar 27, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Geek

BeOS

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 28

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• Kodak releases the DC40 camera
• Yahoo launches Yahoo! Photos
• Windows XP 64 is released

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March 27: Link Exchange is Created

Mar 26, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Geek

Link Exchange

1996- Tony Hsieh and Sanjay Madin found themselves in a very exciting spot. As the web was starting to grow, they put together a business plan for a powerful advertising cooperative. The result – LinkExchange was born. Of course, LinkExchange was then bought out by Microsoft for $265 million and the rest is history.

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March 23: Dell Purchases Alienware

Mar 22, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Dell

Dell

2006 – The purchase of Alienware was a calculated one. Dell has wanted to purchase the company for 4 years before they proceeded. The financial terms were not disclosed, but Dell did say that they were keeping both companies separate and there would be no cross marketing.

Alienware was concidered the gaming PCs to have in the first half of 2000. They rebranded headsets and other peripherals to go with their high-customized gaming laptops and desktops. Alienware was founded in 1996 by Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila. The 490 employees work out of Miami, Florida.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 23

• Cold Fusion is achieved
• Game Boy Advance SP
• Microsoft closes Omniture Analytics.

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• Sneak Peek at the Alienware X51 (techie-buzz.com)

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March 22: First Pentium Processor Shipped Out

Mar 21, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Intel

Intel

1993 - The first Pentium processors get shipped out. The 80586, invented y Vinod Dahm, ran at 60 and 66 MHz clock speeds. 3.1 million transistors and 4 GB of addressable memory. It was fabricated in a 0.8 µm BiCMOS process. It was replaced by the P54C.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 21

• The Vinyl version of the DVD – the CED – was patented
• The first laser was patented to Bell Telephone Labratories
• BLEEM! begins accepting pre-orders

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March 18: .AERO Domains Begins Resolving

Mar 17, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Geek

aero

2002- The .aero domain, or domain on aviation, begins registering. The resolution of the .aero domain would happen on Sept 2nd.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 18

• CRT iMac is removed from Apple Store
• SATAN Security tool released

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March 10: Uncensored Bulletin Board System Launched

Mar 9, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Google

BBS

1988- Ignatius T. Foobar launches one of the more interesting and long-lasting Bulletin board systems in the Uncensored BBS. Of course, his name was really Art Cancro, but Ignatius used an Altos 586 running Citadel/UX software. This BBS is still running to this day, even though dial-up access has been discontinued since 2001.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 10

• Richard D Kenadek is sentenced in the Davy Jones Locker BBS case
• Gene Roddenberry‘s ashes are launched into space
• Google releases Android 1.1

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March 8: IBM Announced IBM PC XT

Mar 7, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, IBM

IBM PC XT

1983 -IBM announces the IBM Personal Computer XT (eXtended Technology). It features a Intel 8088 processor,  10MB hard drive, 128 kB RAM, 40Kb ROM and double-sided 360 kB floppy drive. For $4995, it’s all yours. The machine was also called IBM Machine Type number 5160.

The XT could support up to 256 kb on the motherboard. You could get expansion cards to raise to 640 kb. The 8088 processor ran at 4.77 MHz. It weighed 32 lbs (desktop only) and was 19.5 inches wide by 16 inches deep and 5.5 inches high.

The IBM PC XT was the successor to the IBM PC. It was developed until April 1987.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 8

• Sierra and Broderbund announce the merge to Sierra-Broderbund
• The first GHz processors begin to ship
• Sun sues Microsoft

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