1884 – The New York Times reported that “sending
mails by electricity” was to be investigated by the Post Office Committee of
the US House, by providing for contract with an existing telegraph company. The
article promised it could lead to cent telegrams!
1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual
Property Organization entered into force.
1983 – The Trash-80, as it was so admirably called
in the day, a.k.a. the TRS-80 Model 4 is introduced. It contains a 4 MHZ
processor, 16 KB of RAM, a cassette interface, Keyboard and Monochrome monitor.
$1000 for the base model, of $2000 if you upgrade the RAM to 64 KB and 5.25
disk drives. The first TRS-80 was released in 1977.IBM 7030 – the Stretch
supercomputer last release of the Nemesis AOL purchase Flea- Flicker.
1986 – Design flaws made worse by human error during
a safety test, led to the worst nuclear disaster yet, and a partial meltdown at
the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.
1999 – RePlay TV began shipping the first Digital
Video Recorder. It could pause and rewind live TV as well as schedule shows to
be recorded. Models ranged from being able to store 6 hours to 26 hourst of
recorded shows.
The first
known virus to target the flash BIOS of a PC, the CIH/Chernobyl Virus triggers on
this day, erasing hard drives and disabling PCs primarily in Asia and Europe. One
of the most destructive viruses in history, Turkey and South Korea alone report
300,000 infected systems.
2014 – A team
of archaeologists hired by Fuel Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment Studios
uncovered a pile of buried Atari E.T. games in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The games were dumped 31 years before after the game flopped in sales.
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