Today in Tech History – August 28

 

1845 – Scientific American began publication with the issue for this day. It would become the oldest continuously published magazine in the United State.

1991 – First E-mail Sent from Space

           Using a Mac Portable aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, the first e-mail from space is sent to Earth. Two astronauts on the spacecraft, James Adamson and Shannon Lucid, wrote, “Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first Applelink from space. Having a GREAT time, wish you were here, …send cryo and RCS! Hasta la vista, baby, …we’ll be back!” the message was transmitted to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

2008 – Apple Clone Psystar Counter-sues Apple

           Psystar came on the scene earlier in the year with a machine that would contain Windows, Linux or Mac software. Of course, this has not been without controversy. Apple finally put together a lawsuit, but instead of Psystar accepting, they decide to countersue. The reason why Anticompetitive Nature.

The SCO Group is born

Bloomberg publishes Steve Jobs death

Powerbook 5300 recall

New Google Hangouts in HD using the VP8Codec

2009 – Snow Leopard Released; The End of AppleTalk

           Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6, “Snow Leopard” for their Macintosh computers. Snow Leopard was an important release as it was the first to drop support for PowerPC-based Macs and focus optimization for the Inter processor-based Macs. The networking protocol that Apple had used since the 1980’s, AppleTalk, was also discontinued in Snow Leopard. AppleTalk was the first true plug-and-play networking protocol and during its heyday in the late 80’s, AppleTalk was the most widely used networking protocol in the world.

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