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October 4, 1979: HP 41c Programmable Calculator

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Hewlett Packard came out with their first Programmable calculator in 1979. The HP-41c was the first to give alphanumeric display capabilities. It would actually tell you what to do (ex. “ENTER RADIUS”) instead of leaving your wondering. It also had four ports that could be used to expand memory, install a Thermal printer, magnetic reader or bar code scanner.

2011 – Apple Announces the iPhone 4s, with retina display and Siri functionality. The 4s contains the A5 chipset and would be on sale October 10th. Apple also announced iOS5 update, which would be available on October 12th.

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Free Software foundation is formed
AMD Athlon 700 released
George Takai gets an astroid

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September 4, 2008: Apple Removed “Pull My Finger” Application

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2008– A letter was published from the creator of “Pull my Finger” iPhone application from Apple. The program was simple – you pull the finger and a sound was created (You can guess the sound). The letter read:

We’ve reviewed your application Pull My Finger. We have determined that this application is of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod touch user community, and will not be published to the App Store. It may be very appropriate to share with friends and family, and we recommend you review the Ad Hoc method on the Distribution tab of the iPhone Developer Portal for details on distributing this application among a small group of people of your choosing.

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Palm cancels the Foleo
RAMAC 305 is introduced
Internet Demo Site

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August 25, 1991: Linus Torvolds “What Would You Like to See Most in Minix”

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1991 – Linus Torvalds mentions in a message on comp.os.minix with the simple question:

What would you like to see most in Minix

This is the official announcement of the Linux project. Of course Ari Lemmke named it Linux after a while, in which would be adopted as the official name. Linus first wanted to name it “Freix”, which meant Freek Unix.

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Apple Powerbook 5300
Yahoo and ET partner
Broadcom purchases AMD’s Digital TV services
Netflix debuts on iPhone

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August 20, 2008: Apple’s iPhone 3G Antenna Issue

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2008 – When the 3G iPhone released, some people started complaining about the connection. Apple wasn’t saying anything. An independant company stated that the “Infineon” chip that helped control 3G was to blame for the issue. It was suspected that a software update would fix the problem.However the 2.0.2 software update didn’t really help with the connection problems. Add to it the fact that a woman was suing Apple over the 3G network being slower than advertised.

Steve Jobs finally put out a letter stating that by 2.1 the issues will be resolved.

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American Airlines launches in-flight WiFi
PowerMac G4 with Dual 800 Mhz processor is released
Betamax will cease production

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August 10, 2009: 1 Million iTunes Songs, DITH 9 Year Anniversary

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On this day in 2009, the Day in Tech History started. I was running the show as “Week in Tech History”, then went to a daily format to increase listeners. The show has been running for over 1000 episodes, never missing a day. It is now entering into it’s 9th year.

It’s a great day for Apple in 2004 as they hit th one millionth song. They started back in 2001, so to hit 1 million songs in 3 1/2 years was a big milestone. Of course, since then and since the introduction of the iPhone, that number has increased exponentially.

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Borland releases Quattro
World Population at 6 Billion
Craigslist Outtage

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August 8, 2008: $1000 Apple iPhone Application

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Apple has always controlled it’s products – The Application store is no different. This might be a great case why. An application was put into the store – Called the $1000 app. It did cost $1000, which means after Apple’s 30%, the developer received $700 per purchase. The application simply showed a ruby.Apple took the app down quick, but not after the application was purchased 8 times.

Keep in mind there ARE applications that cost upwards to $1,000. I highlighted them in this iPad365 episode.

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Microsoft Office is introduced
Intel announces Pentium 4

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July 19, 2000: Apple PowerMac G4 Cube

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Apple released a series of new items in 2000, including a new “button less” mouse, iMovie2 and the iMac DV series with the PowerPC G3 processor. But they also introduced the PowerMac G4 Cube – a 450 or 500 MHz computer with Velocity Engine – A Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) which operates concurrently with existing integer and floating-point. Add with it 2 Firewire ports, 10/100BaseT Ethernet, Modem and 20 GB hard drive and you had a serious system at the time. The cube could not take cards because of it’s case sizes and the DVD drive was located on the top of the device. It was designed with a case that made it possible to eliminate the fan.

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Palm introduces the IIIe
The iPhone app “cannabis” is released
TWA introduces in-flight movies

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July 11, 2007: Oracle 11g

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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

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