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September 13, 1983: Osbourne Declared Bankruptcy

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1983 – The Osbourne I was a computer introduced by Adam Osbourne in 1981. It featured a Z80 microprocessor and the computer would run at least $1800. However, the computer company did not fair too well. They tried to mask their true financial statements in hopes that things would turn around. However once investors found out what was going on, they would start asking questions. Osbourne could not handle the pressure and on this day they filed for bankruptcy.

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  • Reverse Engineering is a legitimate practice
  • Hacking for Girlies
  • 3COM spins off Palm
Illiac IV

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September 7, 1981: DOD’s Illiac IV Retired

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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

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  • Spore releases
  • Seganet launches
  • Apple admits they didn’t invent the iPod
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August 7, 2000: Palm Debuts Palm m100 line

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August 7, 2000: Palm M-100 released

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.

Eventually, Palm was bought out by HP where it was used and discarded. WebOS software is now Open source.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for August 7

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  • IBM introduces the ASCC
  • First Satellite photos of Earth were taken
  • Apple releases the PowerMac G5
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July 11, 2007: Oracle 11g

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July 11, 2007: Oracle 11g released

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.

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  • 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
Dan Kaminsky

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July 8, 2007: The Big DNS Flaw, 1881 Ice Cream Sundae Created

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July 8, 2007: A major DNS patch was released after a bug Dan Kaminsky found

In 2007, developer Dan Kaminsky found a flaw in the addressing of the Domain Name System, or DNS. DNS is found on home to commercial routers around the world. The issue was so severe, that they were not divulging the issue until a patch could be implemented on a wide scale. On March 31st, Kaminsky – along with 16 other developers – gathered at Microsoft to work on a massive patch and synchronize the release so all details could be released as well. The Patch was released in July 8th, 2008. For more information, see the Explaination of the DNS Flaw

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  • Yahoo! stock split
  • Sega releases the Saturn in Europe
  • The first ice cream sundae!

In 1881, a man walked into Edward Berner’s drug store in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Since it was the Sabbath, the customer couldn’t have the flavored soda water for religious reasons. As he sat at the soda fountain counter, Berner comes to a compromise. Berner put ice cream in a dish and poured chocolate syrup on top. They then named it Ice Cream Sunday. The name will become “Sundae”, the next day.

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July 1, 2011: HP TouchPad, 2000: Trillian, IM2 Released

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2011 – HP announced the TouchPad, their entry into the tablet market. Using the WebOS software they purchased from Palm back in 2010, the TouchPad introduced some new features, including the ability to sync with the upcoming Pre3 phone by touching the two together. However, the tablet was squashed in September by then CEO Leo Apetheker.

Since then, HP abandoned WebOS, making it open source. They have put out another tablet in early 2013 using the Android software.

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2000 – Remember the days of the Instant Messenger? Yahoo IM or Microsoft Messenger, ICQ, AIM and many more. In 2000, a company called Trillian tried to capitalize on the market by making a IM client that could connect to all of these instant messengers. Only problem is that Yahoo! and Microsoft didn’t want to allow this to happen. They tried to block the software. However, new patches were installed and Trillian was able to access the messengers again.

Trillian (www.trillian.im) is still in existance to this day. You can download for your Mac, PC, Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and more!

Funny thing, in 2004, Microsoft put out a multiple – IM software called IM2.

  • FORTRAN is released
  • BASIC ships
  • The first X-Ray photograph
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June 29, 2000: The ASCI White

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2000 – IBM unveiled the ASCI White – their fastest computer yet. This supercomputer was based on IBM’s commercial RS/6000 SP computer. 512 computers were connected to make this supercomputer. over 8 million processors, 5 Terabytes of memory and 160 TB of disk storage.

The computer was completed on this day in New York, and would go on-line on August 15, 2001 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

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  • Compuserve acquires TheSource, a major competitor
  • Gigabit Ethernet standard is set
  • Max Butler pleads guilty to stealing 2 million credit cards
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June 21, 1948: Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine Runs First Program

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Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM)

1948 – What was first expected to be a practical use computer, the SSEM, or Small-Scale Experimental Machine became the first stored-program computer. Basically, it stores program instructions into it’s electronic memory. This 32-bit word length, cathode-ray tube computer was designed to only run subtraction and negation through hardware. Other functions could be run, but only through software.

The first program was run on this day. It was written by Professor Tom Kilbum. The seventeen-instruction stored-program took 52 minutes to run. The program was tasked to find the highest proper factor of 218 (262,144).

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  • Start of the Summer Solstice
  • Congress Robot Caucus
  • SSEM runs first program
  • Final Cut Pro 10 was released to very negative reviews
  • Google and Nest Acquire Dropcam
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