Today in Tech History – October 25

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.

2001 - Windows XP Released
              Microsoft releases the operating system Windows XP, the successor to both Windows 2000 and Windows ME. Designed to unify the Windows NT line and Windows 95 line of operating systems. Windows XP was not replaced by Microsoft until January 2007 with Windows Vista. However, weather nearly 6 years run and the public debacle surrounding the release of Windows Vista, Windows XP remained the world's most popular operating system until August 2012.

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