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January 7, 1982: Commodore 64 Introduced

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Commodore 64
Commodore 64

1982 – the Commodore 64 was introduced by Commodore international. If featured a 6510 processor, 64KB RAM, 20 KB ROM, Microsoft BASIC and was yours for $600. Add the Ulimax, with 2KB for another $149.

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January 6, 1980: GPS week zero

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GPS

1980 – The first Global Positioning System (GPS) week zero starts. In the GPS system, dates are express as a number for the week of the year and one for the day of the week – For instance, we are in Cycle 1, Week 0541 and Day 02. GPS will recycle every 1,024 weeks (19.6 years).

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January 5: CES and MacWorld

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For the next week, you’ll hear a lot about “At CES” or “At MacWorld“. This is because Macworld and Consumer Electronics shows both competed during this week. Of course it wasn’t until 2009 where Macworld had to retool it’s date because Apple pulled completely out of the event.

For example, today 1985, Atari introduced the Atari XE and ST lines of computers. The Atari 520ST was dubbed the “Jackintosh” because the Atari was as powerful as a Mac at half the price.

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  • v 2.0 of Perl is released
  • Steve Jobs accepts CEO position at Apple
  • Steve Jobs announces he has a “Hormonal Imbalance”
HP-35 Scientific Calculator

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January 4, 1972: HP-35 Scientific Calculator

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HP-35 Scientific Calculator

1972 – HP introduces the HP-35 – which was the first handheld scientific calculator. It was named after the fact it had 35 buttons. The unit weighed 9 oz and cost $395. However, this would ultimately be dubbed “The slide-rule killer”

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Time Names Computer of the Year 1983

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January 3, 2009: Bitcoin Introduced, 1983: Computer – Machine of the Year

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Time Names Computer of the Year 1983
Time Names Computer of the Year 1983

2009 – Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the virtual currency Bitcoin. Using Cryptocurrencies along with public-key encryption, the currency is recorded on the transaction log.

1983 – Instead of naming a person of the year for 1982, Time magazine decides to give the dubious honor to the Personal computer. It was interesting that it happened so early in the computers’ existence. Nonetheless, the computer was praised for it’s symbol to 1982. Now think of how that has changed in the last 28 years.

TIME‘s Man of the Year started in 1927, to put Charles Lindbergh on the cover. Lindbergh refused  an article based on his trans-Atlantic flight and Time wanted to find a way to put him on the cover.

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Visicalc - Dan Bricklin

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January 2, 1979: Software Arts (VisiCorp) incorporated

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Dan Bricklin Shows off Visicalc

1979 – Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston incorporate Software Arts to publish their program called “VisiCalc” – an early spreadsheet program. It was geared for the Apple II computer line. This was the first real business application – sometimes called the “Killer App”.The company was later renamed to VisiCorp

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  • Coleco sells Adam
  • Intel recalls 1.3 GHz chips
  • EMC purchases SourceLabs
Arpanet

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January 1, 1983: ARPANET Switches TCP/IP

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Arpanet
Arpanet

1983 – It was an order by the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense, Richard DeLauer. The ARPANET was to have finished a conversion from the Network Control Protocol it was on, to Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. Otherwise known as TCP/IP.The transistion went smooth, and everyone got a button for their hard work stating “I survived the TCP/IP transition”.

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  • Happy 18th Anniversary, Bill and Melinda Gates
  • The Kermit project begins
  • DOD and Walmart implement RFID tags
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