In 1980, Radio Shack introduced the TRS-80 Pocket Computer. Manufactured by Sharp, the PC-1 featured a twenty-four character display, a QWERTY keyboard and 1.9 KB of programmable memory, all for $230. Learn more at http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc1.html. In 1964, NASA’s space probe Ranger 7 transmitted the first […]
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BlazeVideo is running a special Olympics 2012 giveaway for its video/photo software VideoFlick. VideoFlick would normally sell for $29.95 but is currently available free for everyone. At the time of writing this there is a little over one week until the offer expires. View &
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As expected, Mac OS X Mountain Lion is coming to Macs on July 25th. So what’s new in Mountain Lion? Apple boasts that there are over 200 new features. The most significant are related to the convergence of Mac OS X and iOS, or more
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In 1850, The Harvard Observatory photographed a star for the first time in history. The star was Vega in the constellation Lyra. Lyra is a small constellation, quite easily identified as it appears to consist of an equilateral triangle attached to a parallelogram. Its brightest
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With security concerns becoming increasingly necessary these days, how do you decide which product is right for you? Well, hopefully I can help shed a little light on this subject for all the readers out there! Having used Symantec’s Norton products in the industry to
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In 1977, FORTRAN-80, Microsoft’s second language product, was released at a cost of $500 for an individual license. The name FORTRAN is an acronym for FORmula TRANslation, because it was designed to allow easy translation of math formulas into code. Learn more at http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Cassini-Huygens/SEMVOZ1VQUD_0.html In
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In 1929, the first mechanically scanned color television was demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in New York City. It consisted of three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, with a series of mirrors to superimpose the red, green, and blue images into
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In 1963, the first demonstration of a home video recorder took place at BBC Studios, London. While it was arguably a revolutionary development in home entertainment, machines were expensive and could not meet the needs brought on by the onset of color programming. Learn more
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Here, at DCT, we cannot emphasize enough the importance of regular backups. I’m still constantly amazed at the numbers of users who do not utilize any sort of backup strategy in order to help protect their precious personal data. There are already plenty of free
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