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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