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  • 2/13/1980: Apple Incorporated
  • 2/14/1924: birth of IBM
  • 2/14/1946: ENIAC unveiled
  • Black History Month:
    • Marie Van Britton Brown invented the first home security system with her husband.
    • Lonnie G Johnson worked on the JTEC - johnson thermoelectric energy converter. It turns heat into electrical energy by compressing and expanding hydrogen gas. He also invented the super soaker!

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  • 2/3/1986 -Vaporware: According to Computerhistory.org, Time Magazine used the term “vaporware” to talk about the delays Microsoft had delivering Windows. Interestingly, the term was created by a Microsoft engineer in 82, when he responded to a reporter’s question about MFST continuing to develop Xenith, an OS that depended on Open Source software. He said “basically, it’s vaporware”.
  • Black History Month
    • Mark E Dean, IBM Fellow, helped invent the PC (holds 3 of the original 9 IBM patents). Linked article (looks to have been written around 2000) calls him an IBM “idea man”, and his pet project was an electronic tablet.
    • Shirley Ann Jackson, current President of Rensselaer Polytechnic University, worked at Bell Labs early in her career, where her research helped develop caller ID (among other things)
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• This week/day in tech history
  • 2/1/91: Sun starts Java
  • 1/28/86: Challenger exploded
  • 1/27/83: Lotus 123 released

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