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September 20, 1954: FORTRAN Code Run for First Time
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1954 – Fortran is a blend from the IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System that started as the assembly language for the IBM 704. A general-purpose, procedural programming language that is suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
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- Purple Codes broken
- Red Hat 2.0 released
- Large Hadron Collider to shut down
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January 25, 1881: The Oriental Telephone Company
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Subscribe! Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 1881 – Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison establish the Oriental Telephone Company of New York and the Angle-Indian Telephone Company Ltd. These companies were licensed to sell telephones in other countries such as Greese, Turkey, India, Japan, China and more. Countries recieving phones would have […]
January 24, 1948: IBM Dedicated Poppa in New York City
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Subscribe! Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 1948 – At IBM world headquarters, IBM dedicated the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC). The machine – otherwise known as Poppa – was the first computer to combine electronic computation with stored instruction. The 13,500 vacuum tube computer contained 21,000 relays. The 1,800 square foot computer […]
January 23, 1896: The First Public X-Rays
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Subscribe! Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 1896 – Although he was not the only person to be working on the technology and not the first X-ray, Wilhelm Roentgen gave the first public lecture and demonstration of his device. He photographed Dr. Albert von Kolliker’s hand at the Wurzburg Physical Medical Society. The first […]
January 22, 1998: Microsoft and US Department of Justice
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Subscribe! Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 1998 – Microsoft reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice regarding Internet Explorer on Windows 95. In the agreement, computer manufacturers could have the IE link removed. This was a small step in the antitrust suit against Microsoft and using bundled software and drive […]
January 21, 1981: The First Delorean DMC-12
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Subscribe! Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 1981 – While getting this up to 88 miles per hour doesn’t take you back in time, it was still a cool car to have. The First production Delorean DMC-12 was built. A prototype was made back in 1976 and all Deloreans were made in […]
January 20, 1885: the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway Patent
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Subscribe! Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 1885 – Sounding like anything but a roller coaster, the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway was the first American designed amusement coaster designed by LaMarcus Adna Thompson. Only 5 cents to ride, the Switchback was a simple coaster that took you about 600 feet to the next tower […]
January 19, 1983: Apple Lisa is Introduced
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Subscribe! Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More Happy Birthday to me. 1983 – at an introductory price of $9995, Apple introduces the Lisa computer – the first computer with a GUI (Graphical User Interface). The computer featured a 5 MHz 68000 microprocessor, 1 MB RAM, 12″ monochrome monitor, dual 5.25″ 860 KB […]