Day in Tech History

The Day in Technology History is a podcast detailing what happened in Tech. This is a daily podcast, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We look at stories of the Information Age, dates of artifacts, creation of Silicon Valley and the history of companies like Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Commodore, Facebook, Twitter and more. It’s a Computer museum in a podcast.

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June 12, 2009: US Digital Television (DTV) Transition

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2009 – After much planning and a couple set backs, the Digital TV transition is completed in the US. Stations will Non-profit status or emergency bands could broadcast using analog signal. 2.8 million users were still not ready for the conversion.

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Swiss Army Knife is patented
Mr. Wizzard passes away
First 500,000 watt power radio station – W8XAR – begins tests

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June 11, 1997: First Cameraphone Picture, 1980: Steve Ballmer Joins Microsoft

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1997 – Phillippe Kahn snaps the very first cameraphone picture. It was his newborn daughter from a jury-rigged camera into cell phone. After that, Kahn created Lightsurf to develop and market the process.

1980 – Otherwise known as “The 24th Man” (to join Microsoft, that is), Steve Ballmer came on as Microsoft’s first Business Manager. He made only $50k and stock options. Of course 30 years later, Steve succeeded Bill Gates as CEO of the Redmond based software company.

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First Cameraphone picture

Speak and Spell debuts
Compaq purchases DEC for $9 million
The first cameraphone photo – Philippe Kahn taking a picture of his newborn daughter
Apple releases Safari for Windows
1st generation iPhone gets put on the Obsolete list

Apple/ Day in Tech History

June 10: Seiko Introduces Ruputer, Apple II Ships

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1998 – Seiko introduces the world’s first wearable PC watch called the Ruputer. It was marketed under the OnHand PC name. The Ruputer had a 3.6 MHz processor and 2 MB of non-volitile storage. The 102×64 monochrome LCD could display data or play games. a joystick with six function buttons were on the Ruputer. This watch could download pictures and had three applications that ran on Windows 95. Ruputer cost $285

1977 – Apple Computer Inc. ships the first Apple II personal computers. The computers feature a MOS Technology 6502 processor, 4 kilobytes of RAM, two game paddles, an RF cable for connection to a standard television, and a 5 1/4-inch floppy disk drive.

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Intel releases the 200 MHz pentium processor
Microsoft announces they will discontinue MS Money
IBM and Microsoft sign a joint development agreement

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June 8, 1887: Herman Hollerith Gets Patent for Punch Card Reader

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1887 – Herman Hollerith is a pioneer. His creations in the 19th century were detrimental in modern computing. Herman Hollerith’s creations helped the United States create a Census. On June 8th he received a patent for a punch card reader, which was used in many fashions, including school attendance, for almost 100 years.

Hollerith’s Punch card system also has been at the point of controversy – IBM was sued using the Alien Tort Claims Act because Hollerith machines were used in the 1933 census. This ultimately gave Adolf Hitler a full list of Germans and Jews in Germany. It was so useful to the Nazis, apparently a machine was set at each concentration camp.

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Intel introduces the 8086 processor
Yahoo acquires Viaweb
Apple introduces the iPhone 3GS

Day in Tech History/ Geek

June 7, 1968: Legoland Park Opens

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1968, 45 years ago, the first Legoland Park opened in Denmark – called Legoland Billund. This park was right across the street from the Lego factory. It featured expansive cityscapes modeled in Lego bricks. 625,000 will visit the park within the first year.

The rich story of LEGO is a Pixar Video I talked about on Dorkazine

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Commodore Executive 64 is released
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson orders the breakup of Microsoft into two companies

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June 6, 2011: Steve Jobs Last Keynote, 2005: Apple Switches to Intel

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2005 – Steve Jobs spoke in front of the masses at the WWDC announcing that Apple will switch their processors from PowerPC to Intel. He then showed off the Mac OS X running on aPentium 4 CPU. The reasoning was that PowerPC chips took too much power to run and also ran hotter than an Intel chip.

2011 – It was also a sad day, as Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave what was to become his last keynote at WWDC. He introduced us to iCloud – a new service so you do not need a computer to connect your iPad or iPhone. iOS got an upgrade to version 5, and Jobs announced Mac OSX Lion. Also announced was iTunes Match, a way to keep your music in the cloud.

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TI 99/8 is introduced
The first Internet connection
Palm releases the Palm Pre

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June 5, 1938: Pedro, the Voder Computer Speaks

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1938 – Pedro, the Voder is the name for the first computer that could produce speech. Bell Telephone brought out Pedro to the Franklin institute to show the new option off. Of course, years later, we can replicate a persons sound, which was shown off when Roger Ebert was on Oprah taking for the first time since his surgery.

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Apple II goes on sale
Bob Hope was declared dead on the Internet – which was not true
Jeff Moss joined the Homeland Security Advisory Council

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June 4, 1896: Ford Test Drives First Car, 2003: Palm Acquires Handspring

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1896 – Henry Ford gets ready to test drive the first Quadricycle (a.k.a. Car). Only one problem – They didn’t make the garage door big enough. Out comes the Ax – A couple chops and a wider door was created. The car ran 2 speed, but could not go in reverse.

It’s all in the book – the ford century

2003 – Palm board of directors announce they have unanimously approved an agreement for Pam to purchase Handspring – one of its rivals in the PDA market. The deal is all stock realted where Handspring stockholders would get .09 cents of a share of Palm and no shares of PalmSource (Palm shares were at $13.89 and Handspring were at $1.27). The deal would be worth $169 million.

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Patent for DRAM
Nintendo introduced the Game Boy
Packard Bell and NEC merge

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