Posts Tagged ‘shelves’

1998 – Radio Shack said in an interesting move that they partnered with Compaq over IBM in PC sales throughout their 7,000 stores. By May, the Presario 2246 would hit shelves. It is a 233 MHz AMD-K-6 that sold for $999. The Presario 4555 would cost consumers $1399 and the high end Pentium II – 300 would cost $2299.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Tim McVey Day
• Yahoo acquires GeoCities
• Ann Marie Linscott uses Craigslist to hire a hitman

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2005 – In an effort to curb piracy, record companies began putting copy protection on the CD’s themselves.  The electronic marking would cause CD’s to error out if they tried to copy. Unfortunately this idea was riddled with problems. Some players couldn’t read the disks, other people would find ways around the copy protection, such as different brand drives. However, it was found that the XCP copy protection standard became a backdoor for hackers as viruses could be introduced through the software.

The announcement came ten days after Sony had secretly put this system on the shelves.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Remembrance of Veterans on Vetrans Day / WWI Memorial Day
• IBM 2980 Financial terminal
• The first OLPC order is placed
• Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Icahn debauchery cost $73 million.

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