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July 31, 1980: TRS-80 Model III, TRS-80 Pocket Released

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TRS-80 pocket
July 31, 1980: TRS-80 pocket was released

Radio Shack released a few new TRS-80 line computers in 1980. One was the introduction of Model III. It contained a Zilog Z80 processor and 4 kb of RAM> The price was only $699.Then again, you could get the TRS-80 for $399 with the Motorola 6809E CPU, or the TRS-80 Pocket computer for $230

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Pixar Tin Toy

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March 29, 1989: Pixar’s Tin Toy Wins Academy Award

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Pixar Tin Toy
Pixar Tin Toy

1982 – The first completely computer animated video wins an Academy Award for best animated short film. “Tin Toy” by Pixar (now a division of Disney) was an animated short film about a toy named Tinny – a one man band – who was being played by an infant named Billy. The short film lasted 5 minutes and cost $300,000 to make.

The short film also won awards at the Seattle International Film Festival, World Animation Celebration, and National Film Registry.

A sequel was in the works, but Tinny was not a popular toy for the kids. Therefore, the film was not made as Pixar concentrated on the movie “Toy Story”.

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Tim McVey Day

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January 28, 1984: Tim McVey Day

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Tim McVey Day
Tim McVey Day

1984 – One billion points on one quarter. That was the reason for Tim McVey Day. At the Twin Galaxies arcade back on January 17th, Tim scored 1,000,042,270 points on one quarter to the game “Nibbler” – a hybrid Pac-Man and Centipede game. McVey got his name in Computer Games Magazine for it, and so he became the first video gamer to get a civic day in his honor.

His record was broken eight months later by Enrico Zanetti.

Of course, this event gets overshadowed by the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing by Timothy McVeigh.

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TRS-80 pocket

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July 31, 1980: TRS-80 Model III, TRS-80 Pocket Released

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TRS-80 pocket
July 31, 1980: TRS-80 pocket was released

Radio Shack released a few new TRS-80 line computers in 1980. One was the introduction of Model III. It contained a Zilog Z80 processor and 4 kb of RAM> The price was only $699.Then again, you could get the TRS-80 for $399 with the Motorola 6809E CPU, or the TRS-80 Pocket computer for $230

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Pixar Tin Toy

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March 29, 1989: Pixar’s Tin Toy Wins Academy Award

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Pixar Tin Toy
Pixar Tin Toy

1982 – The first completely computer animated video wins an Academy Award for best animated short film. “Tin Toy” by Pixar (now a division of Disney) was an animated short film about a toy named Tinny – a one man band – who was being played by an infant named Billy. The short film lasted 5 minutes and cost $300,000 to make.

The short film also won awards at the Seattle International Film Festival, World Animation Celebration, and National Film Registry.

A sequel was in the works, but Tinny was not a popular toy for the kids. Therefore, the film was not made as Pixar concentrated on the movie “Toy Story”.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 29

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TRS-80 Model 100

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March 29, 1983: Radio Shack Introduces TRS-80 Model 100

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TRS-80 Model 100
March 29, 1983: TRS-80 Model 100 introduced

1983– Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 Model 100. It is the first portable computer featuring a 2.4 MHz processor for $799. The portable machine weighed 3.9 lbs.The model-100 was first made and sold as the Kyotronic 85. Tandy Corporation took this small computer over, and sold through Radio Shack.Over 6,000,000 units were sold worldwide.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 29

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Yahoo! GeoCities

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January 28, 1999: Yahoo Aquired GeoCities

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Yahoo! GeoCities
Yahoo! GeoCities

First started as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI) GeoCities was one of the largest online user-created communities. At it’s height, GeoCities was the third-most visited website. Pages built by users to slice their piece of the Word Wide Web Pie.

Yahoo! saw this as a great addition to their web so on January 28, 1999 Yahoo! announced they were purchasing GeoCities for $3.6 billion dollars and $1 billion in stock options. Because of this news, GeoCities stock jumped up 42.25 points to $117/share. Yahoo! jumped up 31 points to $367/share.

GeoCities was closed by Yahoo! on October 26, 2009

Fun Fact: GeoCities still exists – in Japan.

Wikazine – Full show notes for January 28

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