May 15: Last Lisa Mac XL Produced

May 14, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Apple, Day in Tech History

Local Integrated Software Architecture (LISA)

1985 - The last Lisa Mac XL computer rolls off the assembly line. It was first introduced on Jan 19th, 1983 for $9,995. Sun remarketing purchased about 5,000 Macintosh XLs and upgraded them. Some leftover Lisa computers and spare parts are still available today.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for May 15

• The First McDonalds
• The Love Bug strikes
• Carl Icahn officially launches a Proxy fight against Yahoo

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May 4: Player vs Player (PvP) Comic Launches

May 3, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Geek

PVP

1998 - My first attempt at a website back then was self publishing comics. I started with a website I called “Toonzed“. Other website were popping up. GPF, College Roomies from Hell, Penny Arcade. One of those website was called Player vs Player (PvP). Still going strong today, they have made some pretty funny comics. There are a lot of great web comics out there, too. I only scratched that surface.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for May 4

• “I Love You” virus hits computers
• AOL repairs glitch so Apple Macs can use the service
• Microsoft pulls their offer to Yahoo. Jerry Yang sends a memo to employees on what happened.

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• May 2: First Microsoft Mouse (dayintechhistory.com)

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April 24: Apple Introduces Apple IIc

Apr 23, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Apple, Day in Tech History

Apple IIc

1984 - Apple introduces the Apple IIc, their answer to a portable machine. It weighed 7 1/2 lbs and featured a 1.023MHz CPU and 128 KB RAM. $1,295. The device device had a built-in floppy and peripheral expansion ports. This was a closed system – no expansion slots to plug in cards. It was deemed an appliance computer, which meant was ready to go when you pulled it out of the box.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for April 23

Other Events in the Day in Technology History

• IBM PC first announced (but wouldn’t be released until Aug 12th)
• Amiga 3000 announced
• Cnet / Yahoo deal

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April 9: Seiko Debuts Ruputer Wristwatch PC

Apr 8, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Geek

Ruputer Personal Computer Wristwatch

1998 - Seiko Instruments introduces the world’s first wrist wearable Personal Computer called the Ruputer. This wristwatch was planned to be released June 10, 1998 and cost $285. The Ruputer featured a 16-bit, 3.6 MHz processor and 2 MB of non-volatile storage memory, 128 KB of main memory, a full graphic display, and a small joystick.

The Ruputer connects to Windows 95 via infrared, and can download pictures and other simple data. The Ruputer came with three applications. The watch also had an SDK, so you could program in the C programming language.

Seiko discontinued the Ruputer for the OnHand PC.

Wikazine – Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for April 9

• AMD “Barcelona” Chip
• smallbusiness.yahoo.com launches
• Earthlink aquires PeoplePC

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• January 28: Radio Shack Chooses Compaq over IBM (dayintechhistory.com)

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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

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Other Events in the Day in Technology History

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

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March 20: Yahoo Acquires Photo Site Flickr

Mar 19, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Yahoo

Yahoo

2005- Yahoo acquires Ludicorp and the popular photo sharing site Flickr. No details were released on this purchase. On Yahoo’s blog they outline that Flickr will continue to run as-is, while Yahoo Photos will incorporate some of the ideals into it’s site. The biggest issue from the deal was that Ludicorp was based in Vancouver, therefore when the data transfered to Yahoo servers the week of June 25th, it became subject to US federal law.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 19

• Google Chome adds RSS support
• 3-COM exit strategy of high-end data networking
• Apple 20th Anniversary Macintosh (TAM)

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March 2: Microsoft Antitrust Activities Hearing

Mar 1, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Microsoft

Microsoft

1997- US Senator Orrin Hatch holds a hearing on the Antitrust activities of Microsoft. Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and Jim Barksdale of Netscape Communications were present to question if Microsoft is intentionally pushing out the Netscape web browser for Internet Explorer. Of course, this would become a long drawn out investigation which almost splits Microsoft into separate companies.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 2

• Delphi is first released by Borland
• Yahoo! is incorporated
• Napster begins blocking access to one million MP3
• Steve Jobs announces the iPad2

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• February 1: Microsoft Bids for Yahoo (dayintechhistory.com)
• January 30: Microsoft Windows Vista Released (dayintechhistory.com)
• February 17: Microsoft Windows 2000 Released (dayintechhistory.com)

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February 1: Microsoft Bids for Yahoo

Jan 31, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Microsoft

Microsoft

2008 – Microsoft officially made a move to put a bid in for Yahoo! They announced a plan of $31 a share, which was 62 percent of premium common stock from Yahoo! This was not the first time Microsoft had made a play for the company, but this was the most covered by press.

Wikazine – Full show notes for February 1

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• Texas Instruments Patents the integrated circuit
• Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan and James Gosling begin devolpment of Java
• Mike Scott states that Apple is Typewriter Free

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January 28: Radio Shack Chooses Compaq over IBM

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

Radio Shack

1998 – Radio Shack said in an interesting move that they partnered with Compaq over IBM in PC sales throughout their 7,000 stores. By May, the Presario 2246 would hit shelves. It is a 233 MHz AMD-K-6 that sold for $999. The Presario 4555 would cost consumers $1399 and the high end Pentium II – 300 would cost $2299.

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• Tim McVey Day
• Yahoo acquires GeoCities
• Ann Marie Linscott uses Craigslist to hire a hitman

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January 13: Jack Tramiel resigns from Commodore

Jan 12, 2012 by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine    No Comments    Posted under: Day in Tech History, Geek

commodore

1984 - Two days after the announcement of the 264 and 364 computers, CEO Jack Tramiel resigned from Commodore. There was a lot of battling within the board of directors. 6 months after Tramiel left, he started another company called “Trammel” and hired away a few of the key Commodore employees. The company was one of those that bought – then sold – Atari.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Carol Bartz accepts the CEO position at Yahoo
• Iomega acquires SyQuest
• Microsoft SQL Server is announced

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