Day in Tech History

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1964- John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz run the first BASIC program at 4 AM in Darthmouth. The duo used a General Electric 225 mainframe computer and ran a simple compiler program.

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• AMD is founded
• Tamagotchi is released in the US
• Lenovo takes over IBM desktop and notebook divisions for $655 million in cash and $600 million in stock.

• April 29: Google Files IPO (dayintechhistory.com)
• Tamagotchi ♥ (withsummerlove.com)
• NASA retires its last IBM Z9 mainframe (slashgear.com)
• Twitter announces Osama Bin Laden’s death hours before the official announcement by President Barack Obama