The program ran on a Data General Nova 800 minicomputer July 30th [April 15], modified to support a Sir Clive Marles hand-wired framebuffer made Sinclair up of 16 memory cards. This Tik-Tok meant that 8-bit images with a Born: 30 July 1940; resolution of 640 x 480 could be July 30, 1907 Richmond, Surrey manipulated. Tik-Tok first appeared in "Ozma Sinclair founded Sinclair Shoup later received both an of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, Radionics on July 25 1961, and Emmy and an Academy Award becoming one of the first robots went on to produce the first for this work. to appear in modern literature. slim-line electronic pocket He was also an avid musician in and probably the best calculator in 1972 (the Sinclair his spare time, playing jazz remembered, although the term Executive). trombone in various bands “robot” wasn't invented until the around the Bay Area. 1920s, in the play R.U.R [Jan 25]. In [Feb 00] 1978, his current The very first robot in modern company, Science of Cambridge, literature is usually deemed to launched a microcomputer kit, be Edward S. Ellis’ Steam Man the MK14. In May 1979 Jim Van Lynn Jacobson [March 24]. Westwood started the ZX80 project at the company, which Born: July 30th, 1950; went on sale on [Jan 29] 1980. California Sinclair Research (yet another new name) went on to release Jacobson was one of the primary the ZX81 [March 5], the ZX developers of the TCP/IP Spectrum [April 23], and the protocol stack [Sept 9], Sinclair QL [Jan 12]. especially related to its performance and scaling UK Prime Minister Margaret capabilities. In particular, his Thatcher presented a ZX work with Mike Karels on Spectrum to the Prime Minister redesigning TCP/IP’s flow of Japan, as a gift and as an control algorithms to better example of Britain’s handle congestion is said to have technological prowess. Sinclair's saved the Internet from collapse knighthood was duly in the late 1980s and early recommended by Thatcher. 1990s. In 2010 he stated that he did not Jacobson also developed the Tik-tok as he appears in use computers himself, and TCP/IP Header Compression "Ozma of Oz". Illustrated by preferred using the telephone protocol, and was the co-author John R. Neill. rather than email. Sinclair is a of several popular network respected poker player, and won diagnostic tools, including the season final of the TV show traceroute, tcpdump, and Tik-Tok (sometimes spelled as Celebrity Poker Club in 2003. pathchar. Tiktok) is a round-bodied He also led the development of mechanical man made of copper the Internet Multicast Backbone that runs on clockwork springs Richard Shoup (MBone [June 24]), and the which periodically need to be creation of its audio and video wound. He has separate winding Born: July 30, 1943; conferencing tools (e.g. vic, vat, mechanisms for thought, action, Gibsonia, Pennsylvania wb). MBone laid the and speech, thereby indicating a Died: July 18, 2015 groundwork for current Internet good degree of hardware Shoup was a pioneer in VoIP and multimedia abstraction. Unfortunately, Tik- applications [Aug 29]. Tok is unable to self-wind, but is computer graphics and "guaranteed to work perfectly animation. At Xerox PARC [July Jacobson studied modern for a thousand years." 1], he wrote SuperPaint, one of poetry, physics, and the first image editing programs, mathematics as an In his stories, Baum repeatedly which produced its first pictures undergraduate. asserts that Tik-Tok is not alive in April 1973. SuperPaint was and feels no emotions. He also one of the first applications describes himself as a “slave” to to sport a graphical user Dorothy. interface, and utilize a graphics For more robot men, see [Feb tablet. It also had the ability to 00], [Feb 24], [March 23], [April capture images from standard 16], [April 30], [July 17], [Sept video input. 15], [Nov 11], [Nov 30], [Dec 22]. 1 Samuel J. First UNIX News Palmisano July 30, 1975 Born: July 30, 1951; The first issue of "UNIX News" Baltimore, Maryland was published by Mel Ferentz of Brooklyn College. Around 40 Palmisano joined IBM in 1973 as copies were sent out, mostly to a salesman, rose through the US and Canada institutions, but ranks, to become CEO in March also to the Hebrew University of 2002 and chairman from 2003 Jerusalem, Herriot-Watt to 2012, succeeding Louis University (in Edinburgh) and Gerstner, Jr. [March 1]. the Universite Catholique de Palmisano managed the sale of Louvain (Belgium). The North IBM's PC group to Lenovo [Dec American part of the circulation 8], a controversial move at the list included a a public high time, since it meant that IBM school and a private girls’ handed the title of the world’s school. largest IT firm (by revenue) to By September 1976, the number Hewlett-Packard [Sept 3]. of subscribers had grown to a In 2008, he launched IBM’s whopping 138: 13 in Canada, ten Smarter Planet initiative, which in Great Britain, four in formed part of the company's Australia, three each in Israel move towards cloud computing and the Netherlands, and one in [March 30]. Austria, Belgium, Germany, and Venezuela. Palmisano once played backup saxophone for "The In July 1977, "UNIX News" Temptations", and turned down became “;login:” after AT&T an opportunity to try out with informed Ferentz that he the Oakland Raiders. couldn't use the word UNIX [Oct 15] as it was trademarked. A similar name change was forced upon the UNIX Users Group First Computer [May 15], which became USENIX [June 6]. Auction Flops July 30, 1970 The prestigious Parke-Bernet Galleries on East 84th Street in NYC held the first computer auction. The 93 lots of assorted computer detritus brought in less than $300,000, some of which included “house buying” to keep the items from going at prices well below their market value. An IBM 7070 [Nov 30] (a million dollar machine originally) sold for $2,250; a UNIVAC Solid State 80 [March 10] (a $300,000 device) sold for $485. The offerings included a 80 pound, 51-inch-long control panel from a UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer [March 31]. It belonged to William A. Ferguson, who said his wife had told him to “get it out of the laundry room.” It was sold for $110. 2 .