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October 10, 1980: Pac Man North American Release

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1010, day in tech history, debut, full swing, ghosts, hd, japan, japanese arcades, little dots, metric system, north america, pac man fever, pac-man, pie chart, Podcast, technology history, tom cruise, video game 0 Comments October 10, 2024

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1980– The video game that changed it all debut in North America. The infamous yellow pie chart gobbling up little dots and avoiding ghosts for top scores was released to the Japanese arcades in May, but finally made it to North America in 1980.

Toru Iwatani developed the game with a nine-person team. The game was first called “Pakkuman”, inspired by the paku-paku phrase (which is what Pac-Man says whilst chomping Blinky (Oikake), Pinky (Machibuse), Inky (Kimagure), and Clyde (Otoboke).

The game had a major glitch at level 256, since it was never expected someone would get that far.

The 80’s era officially was in full swing. Pac Man fever was on the loose.

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XP SP1 and SP1a support ends
The Metric system is born
Happy Tom Cruise Day.

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October 5, 2011: Steve Jobs Passes Away

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1005, advanced micro devices, airs, AMD, architecture, bin laden death, bit architecture, cupertino, day in tech history, eighth generation, flying circus, future system, lightning data, Linux, linux kernel, memories, microprocessor, microprocessor forum, monty python, oct 5, Osama Bin Laden, pancreatic cancer, Podcast, realdvd, san jose california, steve jobs, system bus, technology history, this day in tech history, tweets, vigils, x86 0 Comments October 5, 2024

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2011– Steve Jobs passes away in his home at 3 pm Pacific. He went into respritory failure due to the pancreatic cancer he was fighting for over 10 years. Twitter exploded with over 10,000 tweets per second on this event (Osama Bin Laden death was 5,000). Vigils were held in his memory and Cupertino office was plastered with flowers and memories on post-it notes.

1999– The Microprocessor Forum is held in San Jose, California. During the event, Advanced Micro Devices outlines its own x86 64-bit architecture, as well as Lightning Data Transport – Its future system bus. This will become AMD’s eighth-generation microprocessor code-name: Sledgehammer

Monty Python’s Flying Circus first airs
First Linux Kernel 0.02
Judge halts the sale of RealDVD

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October 4, 1979: HP 41c Programmable Calculator

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1004, 4s, aggregator, AMD, apple, astroid, athlon 700, bar code scanner, capabilities, day in tech history, desktop calculator, free software foundation, george takai, hewlett packard, hp, hp 41c, iPhone, magnetic reader, memory, Podcast, ports, programmable calculator, radius, Reader, retina, siri, software, technology history, thermal printer 0 Comments October 4, 2024

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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.

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

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October 3: Happy Birthday to the Buffalo Wing!

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1003, abc, Bill Gates, buffalo new york, buffalo wings, captain kangaroo, cbs, cia, independent music, mickey mouse, mickey mouse club, music area, passion, patent, Podcast, tech, tech history, this day in tech history, Transistor 0 Comments October 3, 2024

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This is an especially Geeky day, for not only in 1955 was Captain Kangaroo and the Mickey Mouse Club debuting on CBS and ABC, but in 1964 the first Buffalo Wings were made in Buffalo, New York. Hence the name – Buffalo wings.

There are four different versions of how they came to be. Wikipedia accredits Teressa Bellissimo and the Anchor Bar in Buffalo for the invention.

You can serve them up with celery (no carrots), and Blue Cheese dressing (Apparently the folks in Buffalo take offense to using Ranch dressing).

I think we all need to take an evening off and enjoy a beer and wings with your friends.

Patent for the Transistor
TASCC is opened
Bill Gates on Browsing extensions

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October 1, 1979: Ex-Atari Employees Started Activision

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1001, activision, aggregator, alan miller, apple mac, atari 2600, atari inc, attachment, Bob Whitehead, david crane, game cartridges, game designer, game designers, game system, larry kaplan, levy, Microsoft, microsoft search, Podcast, target, technology history, this day in tech history, whitehead, www 0 Comments October 1, 2024

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1979– Activision was founded by four ex-Atari, Inc. game designers: David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead. They teamed up with Jim Levy to produce game cartridges for the Atari 2600 game system. This, in fact, was the first company that developed game cartridges only. The company started with an investment of $700,000.

It’s also a DITH history point – October 1, 2011 I took Day in Tech History off of Geekazine and onto its own website.

EPCOT opens
The original Apple Mac is retired
Microsoft Search Perks

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September 30, 1889: IBM incorporated – Bundy Manufacturing

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 0930, binghamton, bundy manufacturing co, commodore, computing tabulating recording company, injunction, international business machines, mfg co, Podcast, realdvd, technology history, thirteen years, this day in tech history, timeclock, willard 0 Comments September 30, 2024

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1889 – The Bundy Manufacturing Co., a maker of time recording equipment, is incorporated in Binghamton, N.Y. Willard L. Bundy created a new type of timeclock for business. Bundy Manufacturing Co. Bundy was acquired by the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, Inc. (C-T-R) in 1911. Thirteen years later, the name would change one more time to International Business Machines (IBM).

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Commodore announces the CBM8032
IE 4.0 is released
MPAA asks for an injunction of RealDVD

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September 29, 2001: Mac OSX “Puma” Releases

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 0929, apple os x, batteries, battery, cern, lenovo, mac 10, mac os x, mac osx, mac users, os 9, os x, Podcast, puma, september 29, technology history, this day in tech history 0 Comments September 29, 2024

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2001– With one version of the Apple OS X under it’s belt, “Puma” – or OS X 10.1 is released to the public. Updates would include extended DVD support and the ability to burn DVD – RW. There were still a lot of people against this new version of software. A lot of Mac users still liked OS 9 and thought OS X is a “superfluous” upgrade.

CERN is formed
Lenovo recalls 526,000 batteries
Zimbra Password exposure.

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September 28, 2011: Amazon Kindle Fire Debut

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 0928, aggregator, amazon store, Android, Bill Gates, british secret service, career change ability, edonkey, Facebook, IPad, james bond, jeff bezos, martini, netscape, next james bond, nishi, paul allen, Podcast, spies, technology history, this day in tech history 0 Comments September 28, 2024

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2011 – Jeff Bezos announces a new line of Kindle products including the Kindle Fire. This 10 inch tablet was Amazon’s rival to the iPad. It ran a version of Android that connected with Amazon store. The Fire would cost $199 and came with 30 days of Amazon Prime.

2008 – British Secret Service admitted they have been looking for the next agents. They mention that they have been looking far and wide for spies. That is why they went to Facebook. MI6 placed 3 ads on Facebook to look for people seeking career change.. ability to shake a good martini is preferred.

eDonkey shuts down
IE overtakes Netscape as the #1 browser
Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Kay Nishi accept new IBM contract

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