Kalinga Athulathmudali

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Happy 41st Birthday to the CD Player!

The Sony CDP-101 is the world's first commercially released compact disc player. The system was launched in Japan on October 1, 1982 at a list price of 168,000 yen,/approx US$730

38 years ago in Sept 1985: She-Ra: Princess of Power debuted.
57 years ago in 1966, Star Trek began airing...

Hello Google Earth!

15 years ago the GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite was launched.

Google had purchased rights to use imagery created from the satellite, and their logo was placed on the side of the rocket used to launch it into space.

Microsoft announced that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development.

But If enough people ask for it, maybe Microsoft will also move WordPad to its app store so that it remains available.

#microsoft #wordpad

25 years ago today, the original iMac (iMac G3) was released.

On this day in 1981, 42 years ago IBM introduced the first IBM PC for US$1,565+

OS: IBM BASIC / PC DOS 1.0
CP/M-86
UCSD p-System

CPU: Intel 8088 @ 4.77 MHz
Memory: 16 KB – 256 KB
Graphics: MDA, CGA
Sound: PC speaker 1-channel square-wave/1-bit digital (PWM)