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November 8, 1993: Windows for Workgroups 3.11

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1993 – Microsoft releases the OS Windows for Workgroups 3.11 – which is the last big release before Windows 95. It was built to connect better with Windows NT for businesses. It also had updates to improve stability and system performance.

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Bubbleboy worm
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November 22, 1994: Sega Saturn Released

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1994 – The Sega Saturn is released featuring 2 28.6 MHz processors running 32 bit. It had 2 video display processors, QSound surround and 2 MB of memory, with 1.5MB of video memory. It went for 44,800 Yen, or $450.

2005 – Microsoft launches the XBOX 360. It contained a IBM PowerPC with 3 cores at 3.2 GHz a core. It contained a 500 MHz ATI card and 512 MB of RAM. There were several versions starting at $249 and going up to $399. The limited Halo 3 version had a specially crafted case.

Bill Gates and John Sculley sign a licensing agreement between Apple and Microsoft
Movies Back to the Future II, Independence Day and Revenge of the Nerds were released
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March 5, 1981: Timex Sinclair ZX81 launched

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1981 – The successor to the Sinclair ZX80, Britain’s most popular home computer – the Sinclair ZX81 was launched by Sinclair Research – a Timex Corporation. It was a popular computer mostly because of the price – £69.95 ($99) or £49.95 in kit form.

The cheap computer had only a fraction of components that an Apple II did. Yet the Apple II was around £699. The Sinclair ZX81 only had 1 kB RAM with option to upgrade to 16 kB. The graphics were only in monochrome and the Z80 CPU ran at 3.25 MHz – 8-bit. This was actually faster than the Apple II processor (1.08 MHz) and only outbested by the IBM PC (4.77 MHz at 16-bit). The TI99/4A procesor was a 3Mhz 16-bit chip.

You could get a tape drive and printer, bringing the system up to about £160 ($250). The computer was succeeded by the ZX Spectrum.

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WMS Industries acquires Atari
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November 22, 1994: Sega Saturn Released

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Bill Gates and John Sculley sign a licensing agreement between Apple and Microsoft
Movies Back to the Future II, Independence Day and Revenge of the Nerds were released
Verizon employees were fired for looking at Barak Obama’s phone records

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November 8, 1993: Windows for Workgroups 3.11

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This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for November 8

Bubbleboy worm
DirectX 9 is released
Eric Schmidt bows out of Barak Obama’s search for a CTO

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March 5, 1981: Timex Sinclair ZX81 launched

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, altair, apple, apple computer, Atari, barak obama, building computers, cheap computer, cto, first apple, fred moore, Geek, homebrew computer club, iTunes, kundra, menlo, menlo park, menlo park ca, Menlo Park California, popular computer, Sinclair Research, Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81, Steve Job, steve jobs, steve wozniak, SteveWozniak, Timex Corporation, Vivek Kundra, WMS Industries 0 Comments March 5, 2018

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You could get a tape drive and printer, bringing the system up to about £160 ($250). The computer was succeeded by the ZX Spectrum.

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WMS Industries acquires Atari
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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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