Geek Facts for September 18th – The First Latin American Astronaut, a Workstation and a Handheld Computer

By Judy Novotny / 09/18/2012 / 1 Comment / Geek Facts, Technology

In 1980, Cuban Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez became the first person of color sent into space.

Tamayo-Mendez, also the first Latin American in space, was an astronaut aboard Soyuz 38, which docked with Salyut-6 for eight days, starting on September 19th and returned to Earth on September 26th.

Learn more at http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/machines/s38.sht.

In 1990, NeXT released the NeXTstation workstation computer.

Priced at $4,995 with a 17” grayscale monitor, it featured a 25MHz 68050 processor, 8MB RAM (expandable to 32MB) , a 105MB hard drive and the NeXTstep OS version 2.0.

Learn more at http://lowendmac.com/next/nextstation.html.

In 2001, Sony announced the Clie PEG N760C handheld computer.

The Clie PEG N760C featured a built-in digital audio player, Palm OS 4.1 and a 65,536-color display and was priced at $500.

Learn more at http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/2376/sony-clie-pegn760-review/.

About The Author

Judy Novotny

Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.

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