Today in Tech History – March 29

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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