by Mike Hendren | Oct 23, 2024 | Tech History
October 18, 1954 Texas Instruments and IDEA Corporation introduce the TR-1 Regency transistor radio. This marked the first consumer use of transistors, previously only used in industrial and military applications. The pocket-sized radio sold for $49.95 (that’s...
by Mike Hendren | Sep 30, 2024 | Tech History
September 30, 1980 On September 30, 1980, Xerox, Digital and Intel, released version 1.0 of the Ethernet specification called Blue Book. Ethernet works by breaking up information being sent to and from devices into different sized bits of info called frames. Today,...
by Mike Hendren | Sep 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
September 22, 1986 Computer coding, at least the more modern era of coding that we would recognize, really began in the 1950’s. So, it’s a bit surprising that it took the courts this long to determine that computer code deserved copyright protections. In September of...
by Mike Hendren | Sep 16, 2024 | iOS, Tech History
September 16, 1985 AND 1997 After a head-to-head boardroom battle with John Sculley, the former PepsiCo executive that Steve Jobs himself recruited to Apple, Jobs resigned from the company on September 16, 1985. Twelve years to the day later, Steve Jobs was back and...
by Mike Hendren | Aug 19, 2024 | Tech History
August 17, 1982 42 years ago, the world of music and music technology was “forever” changed with the release of the first commercially produced album on CD, “The Visitors” from the Swedish pop supergroup ABBA. The compact disc was co-developed by Phillips and Sony....
