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,...
