Today in Tech History – October 23

1955 - Tappan introduced the first microwave oven for home use. It sold for $1295. Raytheon develop the Radarrange after engineer Percy LeBaron Spencer was working on an active radar set and accidentally melted a candy bar in his pocket.

1977 - VAX/VMS was born. At a shareholder meeting, DEC, the Digital Equipment Corporation, released VMS v1.0 the first version of what we later would call OpenVMS, along with the VAX 11/780 architecture which increase the PDP-11 address space.

1984 - Osbourne Vixen, Encore Debuted
The Osbourne Vixen Debuted. Inside was a ZILOG Z80a processor, with 64k RAM and the CP/M OS. Other programs included Wordstar, Super calc and M-Basic. All this for $1,498. The Encore was also introduced. It was developed by Vadem Inc for $2,195. The computer was an MS-DOS computer with modem and 4 icon keys, phone, clock, disk and calculator.

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