1961 – Trans World Airlines began offering regular in-flight movies on scheduled flights. The first film shown, only in the first class cabin, mind you, was “By Love Possessed,” starring Lana Turner and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
1983 - The First Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of a Human Head via Computed Tomography (CT) is Published
On July 19, 1983, Michael W. Vannier
(Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis) and his co-workers J. Marsh
(Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Deformities Institute, St. Louis Children’s
Hospital) and J. Warren (McDonnell Aircraft Company) published the first
three-dimensional reconstruction of single computed tomography (CT) slices of
the human head. Computer-aided aircraft design techniques were adapted to make
the cranial imaging possible. Since then, CT imaging has become a cornerstone
of the medical profession.
2000 – Apple PowerMac G4 Cube Released
Apple released a series of new items in 2000,
including a new “button less” mouse, iMovies2 and the iMac DV series with the
PowerPC G3 processor. But they also introduced the PowerMac G4 Cube – a 450 or
500 MHz computer with velocity Engine – A Single Instruction Multiple Data
(SIMD) which operates concurrently with existing integer and floating-point.
Add with it 2 Firewire ports, 10/100BaseT Ethernet, Modem and 20 B hard drive
and you had a serious system at the time. The cube could not take cards because
of it’s case sizes and the DVD drive was located on the top.
2004 – Apple announced the fourth-generation iPod with
12-hour battery life and the ability to shuffle songs. HP announced they would
sell an HP branded version of this model of the iPod.
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