1839 – Sir John Herschel presented his ‘Note
on the Art of Photography, or the application of the Chemical Rays of Light to
the purpose of Pictorial Representation’ to the Royal Society, likely the first
use of the word ‘photography’.
1879 – Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in
Wurttemberg, Germany. He would grow up to work in the Swiss patent office. And
reinvent physics.
1955 – Bell Labs Announces
TRADIC “Giant Brain”
AT&T
Bell Laboratories announces the completion of the first fully transistorized
computer, TRADIC. TRADIC contained nearly 800 transistors, which replaced the
standard vacuum tube and allowed the machine to operate on fewer than 100 watts
– or one-twentieth the power required by a comparable vacuum tube computer.
1994 – Apple Power Macintosh
Apple
computer released a new line of Macintosh computers in the power Macintosh
6100. With a 60-66 MHz PowerPC 601 RISC processor – the first time Apple used
this processor line – up to 32 MB of RAM, and options such as a composite and
S-Video input/output, along with full 48 kHz 16 bit DAT resolution sound
processing, this was the computer for the multimedia professional. The basic
Power Macintosh 6100 was priced at $2,209.
Apple also introduced the Power Macintosh 7100 for $3,379
and the 8100 with a 68LC040 emulation ROM for $4,869.
1994 – Linus Torvalds posted to
comp.os.linux.announce that Linux kernel release 1.0 had arrived.
2006 – Amazon announced its S3 storage
service, designed to provide Web developers with cheap fast storage for their
online services. Amazon charged $0.15 per gigabyte of storage per month and
$0.20 per gigabyte of data transferred.
2013 – Samsung announced the Samsung Galaxy
S IV phone would come out in April. Their broadway-influenced presentation
received much criticism.
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