It was a Commodore Vic 20. We were up North at our Grandma’s house for Christmas in 1981. Our cousins had a Vic20 and we played some cool games. When we got home at the end of the week, we opened our presents and low and behold, we had a Vic 20. I swear I [...]
Items talked about this week:
ENIAC
Ruputer
Steve Ballmer Joins MS
Apple Lays off 1200
Jaques Cousteau
IBM is formed
Davy Jones Locker closed
This weeks’ show had some issues as I had some issues with the recording unit. Had to switch to a SM57 mic for the recording, then used a lot of VST effects to clean it up.
Nonetheless, here is your week in tech history. We highlight:
Apple goes Intel
Microsoft Antitrust
Maxis - shocking
CIH Computer Virus
First Spacewalk
Items Discussed:
IBM 701
Star Wars and more Star Wars (movie releases)
First Flights of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart
Atom Bombs
MySQL
ToySmart.com
Disney and Mickey Mouse
Items Discussed this week:
Printing Press
Albert Einstein
George Lucas
Apple
Microsoft
IEEE
AMD
CentOS
Nintendo
Items Discussed:
The Mouse was created
DNA Double Helix was discussed
IBM PC was introduced
Hubble was launched
The First Trojan Horse
The story of Exploding laptops is not a new one. The Lithium battery in your laptop expands to the point where it breaks the encasement. Dell, Sony and IBM ended up recalling a series of batteries to prevent computer loss.
Today scientists announced they had made a solid, non-flammable polymer to replace the liquid electrolyte that [...]
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Events covered:
First Blu-Ray Player
IBM 360
First SpaceShuttle Spacewalk
Atari Opens it’s doors
Synthetic Rubber
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The New York Times reports of a Blogger who gets an email after complaining about a service that is not there. Other people have complained about their bills and Comcast comes back with a “Can I Help”? Even others find themselves with internet connection issues for trying to use the service. This begs the question: are we seeing a new trend and is this a good or bad thing?
First of all, most likely they are not looking at your blog or twitter directly. They are most likely running searches from Google, Summize (remember - Twitter bought that company) and a bunch of other engines. They look at keywords that - in turn - give them information to turn around and say “What can we do?”
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