1941 – 80% of US AM radio frequencies were
reassigned to new channels as part of the North American Radio Broadcasting
Agreement.
1945 – German soldiers blew the launch
tracks for the V-1 rocket site near rocket site near Letelle, Netherlands,
ending the rocket attacks.
1974 – NASA’s Mariner 10 became the first
space probe to cross the orbit of Mercury about 704 km from the surface.
1983 – TRS-80 Model 100
Introduced
Radio
Shack introduced the TRS-80 Model 100, one of the first portable computers in a
notebook-style form factor. The portability simplicity, and built-in-modem of
the Model 100 made it very popular with journalists who could write stories in
the field and transmit them back to their offices. Incidentally, in the early
90’s I acquired a Model 100 that had been used by a newspaper. I was able to
use it to code simple programs, write papers, and use the modem to connect to
bulletin board systems of the time. I recently found that I have 2 of these
models among my tech junk – still in good working order! Good times, good
times.
1989 – Pixar Wins Academy
Award for Tin Toy
Pixar wins
an Academy Award for Tin Toy, the first entirely computer-animated work to win
in the best animated short film category, Pixar, now a division of Disney,
continued its success with a string of shorts and the first entirely
computer-animated feature-length film, the best-selling Toy Story.
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