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The personal computer era gets a kick start

IBM promo

IBM Model 5150 debuted on 12 August 1981.

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First email from space

Shannon Lucid, Macintosh Portable
STS-43 Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid is using the thumbball/handgrip control device with a Macintosh portable laptop computer.

Space Shuttle Atlantis astronauts sent an email to Johnson Space Center, using an Apple Portable computer, on 09 August 1991.

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‘The first large-scale general-purpose automatic digital computer’

Mark 1
The Mark 1/ASCC in Harvard's Cruft Laboratory, April 1948. IBM.

The Mark 1 dedication at Harvard was on 07 August 1944.