Posts Tagged ‘Atari’

1986 -$21.00 a share was the first price for stock in Microsoft. 2.5 million shares were sold, raising the price to 27.75 and netting the company 61 million initially. Since then, the highest it has gone was 57.91 on Dec 24th, 1999. Yet with about 10 stock splits and several dividends in the 24 years, people definitely got their money’s worth. If you would have purchased 100 shares in 1986 and let those shares ride until today, you would have 102,400 shares of stock at appx. $29 a share.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Apple and Bandai demonstrate the Pippin Atmark Multimedia computer
• JTS sells Atari to HIACXI
• Jerry Jalava gets the first prothstetic thumb drive

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1975 – Gordon French and Fred Moore put together the first Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park, CA. The group was put together to discuss the Altair home kit, as well as talk about building computers in general. Of course, the most important meeting was Steve Wozniak who brought the first Apple computer, meeting Steve Jobs.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• WMS Industries acquires Atari
• President Barak Obama appoints Vivek Kundra as CTO

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Since we are not in a leap year, the Day in Tech History does double duty – giving you History of the 28th and 29th.

1966 (Feb 28) – With all these ways to listen in on a conversation, the FCC has to make a ruling to protect the rights of US citizens. They create the Right to Privacy act which bands evesdropping or direct and indirect use of radio – controlled devices.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• M*A*S*H*  broadcasts the final episode (Feb 28)
• PeopleSoft reorganizes (Feb 28)
• Atari Moves (Feb 29)
• DIVX closes the video site Stage 6 (Feb 29)

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1896 – A little Geeky knowledge for ya – The Tootsie roll is introduced. Austrian immigrant Leo Hishfield took the idea to a New York store and sold the idea. The name comes from her 5 year old daughter, whom everyone called “Tootsie”. It became the first “Penny candy” and was even a War time ration since it could withstand severe weather conditions.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Texas Instruments recalls the TI-99/4a for a short in the system
• JTS Corp sells Atari to HIACXI, who is owned by Hasbro
• Comcast OnDemand is launched

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Craig Neidorf (Knight Lightning) is arrested
• Bandai unveils the Pippen Atmark Computer
• Yahoo refuses Microsoft’s offer

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2000 – 10:15 AM, Mafiaboy – a 16 year old hacker from Canada – targets 7 sites with a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). Amazon, Buy.com, CNN, eBay, E*Trade, MSN and ZDNet are all affected. Mafiaboy would be sentenced to eight months in a youth detention center for this DDoS.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• 1983 – Atari Sues Coleco
• Gary Kasparov and Deep Junior 7 end in a tie
• the Cell Processor

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1999 – Victoria Secret holds their annual fashion show after dealing with the networks for the last 10 years. The event attracts attention – 1.5 million visitors to be exact. The company uses the same idea the next year to rousing success. This was considered the first Major Successful webcast.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Namco acquires controlling interest in Atari
• AOL blackout
• Gibert Amelio becomes Chairman of Apple

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2007 – Microsoft releases Windows Vista in many different versions to the public – Home, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, Home Basic N and Business N. With a Codename of “Longhorn”, this was the next version to XP and introduced many new features including the redesigned start button and glass borders. The Ultimate version even had active background, where your desktop picture could be moving.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Atari starts using the slogan “Innovative Leisure”
• Samsung acquires the remaining 51 percent of AST
• Sega announces the Dreamcast will be discontinued

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1984 – Two days after the announcement of the 264 and 364 computers, CEO Jack Tramiel resigned from Commodore. There was a lot of battling within the board of directors. 6 months after Tramiel left, he started another company called “Trammel” and hired away a few of the key Commodore employees. The company was one of those that bought – then sold – Atari.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Carol Bartz accepts the CEO position at Yahoo
• Iomega acquires SyQuest
• Microsoft SQL Server is announced

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Late 90’s – The one interesting thing about looking at tech history is you can see trends. One trend I’ve been seeing in the last few days around the late 90’s was the amount of websites getting hacked. Groups like Legions of Underground, cArPaRtS nInJa TaSk FOrc3? and L|Z gained names for themselves over busting into other websites.

Then, in 1999, chairman of the President’s Council on Year 2000 Conversion: John Koskinen publicly pleads mercy with hackers to create a moratorium during the Y2K time.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Atari releases the 1200XL
• Charles Dickens publishes “A Christmas Carol”
• Cyrix files lawsuits over others who were using their patented technologies

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1972 – Andy Cappa’s tavern in CA was the site for the first Pong game was wheeled into the establishment. The coin-operated game was put in by Atari co-founders Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn. The duo decided that making their own game – rather than having 3rd parties do it – would help keep costs down. They then turned an old Roller rink and converted to a production line. Pong was the first successful video game system.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Microsoft is first mentioned in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen
• Mercury-Atlas 5 carries the first chimpanzee into space
• Microsoft starts talking to Yahoo again – this time on a search deal

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