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June 14, 1938: Action Comics Introduced Superman

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1938 – It is one of the geekiest days for people like me. Creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster introduced one of the comic heros in Action Comics. Interesting enough, Superman was suppose to be a bad guy.

The first form of him appeared in “Science Fiction #3” in 1933. He looked more like Lex Luthor than the caped crusader. But with a little re-tooling, Superman made the comics and a piece of geek history.

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  • 1938 – The First Superman comic
  • 1985 – Apple lays off 1,200 employees
  • 1997 – Tamapittchi, a cellular phone with a Tamagotchi built into it, is released in Japan
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June 14, 1938: Action Comics Introduced Superman

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Action Comics Introduced Superman

1938 – It is one of the geekiest days for people like me. Creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster introduced one of the comic heros in Action Comics. Interesting enough, Superman was suppose to be a bad guy.

The first form of him appeared in “Science Fiction #3” in 1933. He looked more like Lex Luthor than the caped crusader. But with a little re-tooling, Superman made the comics and a piece of geek history.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for June 14

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  • 1938 – The First Superman comic
  • 1985 – Apple lays off 1,200 employees
  • 1997 – Tamapittchi, a cellular phone with a Tamagotchi built into it, is released in Japan
  • 2006 – Google Maps for Enterprise
  • 2009 – #CNNFail
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June 14, 1951: UNIVAC I Unveiled

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June 14, 1951: Univac I was Unveiled

1951 – It was the first commercial general-use computer. The UNIVAC I was unveiled in Washington DC. It was developed for the US census bureau. It stood 8 foot high and used magnetic tape at 10,000 characters a second.UNIVAC is an acronym for the Universal Automatic Computer. The computer itself was delivered to the United States Census Bureau on March 31st, 1951. UNIVAC I was also used to predict the result of the 1952 Presidential election.

UNIVAC I cost around 1.2 million to build, which was a lot larger than their estimated price of $159,000. 46 units were built and delivered. 5,200 vacuum tubes were used to run UNIVAC I. It performed 1,905 operations per second.

Want more info on UNIVAC? Check out A Few Good Men From Univac (History of Computing) on Amazon

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  • 1938 – The First Superman comic
  • 1985 – Apple lays off 1,200 employees
  • 1997 – Tamapittchi, a cellular phone with a Tamagotchi built into it, is released in Japan
  • 2006 – Google Maps for Enterprise
  • 2009 – #CNNFail