Today in Tech History – October 3, 2015

Today in Tech History / October 3rd, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1942 – Germany conducted the first successful test of the V-2/A4 rocket, launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde. It traveled 118 miles.

In 1950 – John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley received US patents for circuits that would eventually be called the transistor.

In 1972 – The first USA/Japan Computer Conference was held in Tokyo.

In 1985 – STS-51J lifted off Sending the Space Shuttle Atlantis on its maiden flight. It was the fourth shuttle created and eventually became the last shuttle to fly in July 2011.

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DTNS 2594 – Rock Me AmaZeus

Daily Tech News Show / October 2nd, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comIt’s Fanmail Friday. We touch on more from the Patreon data dump, get a good insight on why Amazon dumped Chromecast and why you might still want to hold off on a 4K TV. Darren Kitche, Justin Robert Young and Tom Merritt discuss while Len Peralta draws.

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Today in Tech History – October 2, 2015

Today in Tech History / October 2nd, 2015

Today in Tech History logoIn 1925 – John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working television system. It delivered a grayscale 30-line vertically scanned image, at five frames per second. After a ventriloquist’s dummy appeared on screen, 20-year-old William Edward Taynton became the first person televised in full tonal range.

In 1955 – ENIAC was shut down for the last time. After 11 years running at 5,000 operations a second and taking up 1,000 square feet of floor space, it had earned its retirement.

In 1996 – US President Bill Clinton signed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act requiring the US government to make electronic documents available online.

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DTNS 2593 – House of Clouds

Daily Tech News Show / October 1st, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comHow reliable is the cloud? Is the Internet even reliable? +Derek Colanduno joins the show to talk about when to trust the cloud and when not to.

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Today in Tech History – October 1, 2015

Today in Tech History / October 1st, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1958 – The National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics was officially absorbed by the brand new National Aeronautics and Space Agency. Another expanded government bureaucracy that was only good for putting people on the moon.

In 1971 – The first clinical human CT scan was performed on a middle aged lady with a suspected frontal lobe tumour, at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital in South London.

In 1982 – Sony started selling the first CD players to the public, the CDP-101 for 168,000 yen (that’s about $730 US). At the time you could get Billy Joel’s album 52nd street on CD– and soon many more.

In 2003 – 4Chan launched its main page, intended as a sister-site to the Japanese 2Chan for discussions of manga and anime. They provided the fertile ground for the growth of lolcats, Rickrolling, Anonymous, Pedobear and more.

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DTNS 2592 – Schrödinger’s Television

Daily Tech News Show / September 30th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comOLED, 4K and quantum dots got your head spinning? Robert Heron talks TV tech and the best buys out there with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt .

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Today in Tech History – September 30, 2015

Today in Tech History / September 30th, 2015

20140404-073853.jpgIn 1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin.

In 1954 – The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, was commissioned at Groton, CT.

In 1980 – Xerox published the Version 1.0 specifications for Ethernet in conjunction with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

In 2014 – Microsoft announced its next operating system would be called Windows 10, not Windows 9 and would arrive sometime in 2015.

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DTNS 2591 – Magnets! They Work Like This.

Daily Tech News Show / September 29th, 2015

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comGoogle announces new Nexus phones, new Chromecasts for video and audio and an enticing convertible Android tablet. Tom Merritt and Patrick Beja discuss.

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