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.

Day in Tech History/ Geek

March 9, 1993: PowerOpen Environment

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1993 – The PowerOpen Association is formed to conform to the PowerOpen environment, which is an open standard for running forms of Unix on PowerPC platforms. Apple, IBM, Motorola are all in on this group.

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IBM 2260
Four-millionth domain name
Newscorp says no to counter offer on Yahoo
2008 – Sarah Lacy’s SXSW interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

Day in Tech History/ IBM

March 8, 1983: IBM Announced IBM PC XT

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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.

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

Day in Tech History/ Geek

March 7, 1933: Monopoly Game First Created

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1933– Charles Darrow creates the game Monopoly, with designers Elizabeth Magie, Louis Thun, and Fred Thun. There were a few other board games before Monopoly, like “The Landlord game“, which Monopoly was loosely derived from. The board is based on Atlantic City and the playing pieces were models from items around Charles Darrow’s’ house. Parker Brothers would pick the game up in 1935 and turn it into a household name.Since then, multiple variations of the board game have been introduced. Everything from Star Wars Monopoly to Bratz Jr Monopoly game. The game has gone through many revisions, and some families have made “unofficial rules” – such as what happens when you land on Free Parking.

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Richard Wittman Jr. admits breaking into NASA
Sony announces release of Linux development kit for Playstation 2
Intel gives computers, internet to employees for free.

Day in Tech History/ Geek

March 6, 1950: Silly Putty Introduced to Public

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1950– Silly Putty – the stretchable goo that picks up print off a newspaper – is introduced. Peter Hodgson first introduced James Wright’s idea by packaging one ounces into a plastic egg. Interesting facts about Silly Putty – It has some adhesive attributes, which can make it a great way to pick up dirt and pet hair. Silly Putty bounces like a ball and will break when given a sharp blow. Silly Putty is also known as Thinking Putty and is made of Silocone Polymer. It was originally created to be a rubber substitute for use in World War II.

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Apple vs. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard
The Michelangelo Virus
The Bring Newton Back Protest

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March 5, 1975: Homebrew Computer Club is Established

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1975 – Gordon French and Fred Moore put together the first Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park, CA. The group was put together to discuss the Altair home kit, as well as talk about building computers in general. Of course, the most important meeting was Steve Wozniak who brought the first Apple computer, meeting Steve Jobs.

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WMS Industries acquires Atari
President Barak Obama appoints Vivek Kundra as CTO

Day in Tech History/ IBM

March 4, 1956: IBM Purchased Ferrite Core Memory Patent

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1956 – An Wang patented Ferrite Core Memory on May 17, 1955. However, IBM used Ferrite cores in their systems and the patent issue started an interesting legal battle. One that ended in IBM purchasing the patent outright for “Several million dollars”. Wang took the funds to build up Wang Laboratories.

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The first Cray-1 Supercomputer is shipped
The World Wide Web goes online (in primitave form)
Sony releases the Playstation 2 in Japan

Day in Tech History/ Gaming

March 3, 1982: Pac-Man vs. K.C. Munchkin for Odyssey2

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1982 – a popular game for the Odyssey2 system was called K.C. Munchkin. However, this game looked a little too much like Pac-Man. A Federal court in Chicago, IL. agreed. They ordered Philips Consumer Electronics to take the game off store shelves. A sequal was released called Crazy Chase, which was a game that mocked the legal battle of the Pac-Mac – K.C. Munchkin. Of course that game was very close to Centipede, which could have caused a new legal issue altogether.

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Unix Timestamp hits 9 decimal places
Rodney King beating caught on tape
Gibson vs. Guitar Hero case thrown out

Day in Tech History/ Microsoft

March 2, 1997: Microsoft Antitrust Activities Hearing

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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.

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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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