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The Last Apple II
September 15, 1986 Apple introduces the Apple IIgs, the last major product release in the Apple II series of personal computers. Blending the older Apple II series computers with aspects from the Macintosh computer, the advanced “graphics and sound” capabilities of the IIgs (hence the name) was ahead of other contemporary computers such as the…
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Last IBM “Stretch” Computer Shut Down
September 5, 1980 The last IBM 7030 “Stretch” mainframe in active use is decommissioned at Brigham Young University. The first Stretch was was delivered to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1961, giving the model almost 20 years of operational service. The Stretch was famous for many things, but perhaps most notably it was the first…
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Outdoor Track Wraps Last Chance Meet; Bowen Second In Panama
Outdoor Track Wraps Last Chance Meet; Bowen Second In Panama Last Chance Meet Results ALBANY, N.Y. – The University at Albany outdoor track program concluded its third and final home meet of the 2014 season on Saturday, the Purple & Gold Last Chance Meet. With two weeks between conference championships and IC4A and ECAC Championships,…
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Outdoor Track Wraps Last Chance Meet; Bowen Second In Panama
Outdoor Track Wraps Last Chance Meet; Bowen Second In Panama Last Chance Meet Results ALBANY, N.Y. – The University at Albany outdoor track program concluded its third and final home meet of the 2014 season on Saturday, the Purple & Gold Last Chance Meet. With two weeks between conference championships and IC4A and ECAC Championships,…
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Outdoor Track Wraps Last Chance Meet; Bowen Second In Panama
Outdoor Track Wraps Last Chance Meet; Bowen Second In Panama Last Chance Meet Results ALBANY, N.Y. – The University at Albany outdoor track program concluded its third and final home meet of the 2014 season on Saturday, the Purple & Gold Last Chance Meet. With two weeks between conference championships and IC4A and ECAC Championships,…
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Outdoor Track Hosts Last Chance Meet
Outdoor Track Hosts Last Chance Meet Entries ǀ Meet Schedule ǀ Meet Program ǀ Heat Sheets ALBANY, N.Y. – Fresh off winning America East Outdoor Championships, the University at Albany’s men’s and women’s track teams return home for one final meet of the 2014 season, the Purple & Gold Last Chance meet. With IC4A…
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Outdoor Track Hosts Last Chance Meet
Outdoor Track Hosts Last Chance Meet Entries ǀ Meet Schedule ǀ Meet Program ǀ Heat Sheets ALBANY, N.Y. – Fresh off winning America East Outdoor Championships, the University at Albany’s men’s and women’s track teams return home for one final meet of the 2014 season, the Purple & Gold Last Chance meet. With IC4A…
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Bowen, Scannapieco To Compete At Last Chance Meet
Bowen, Scannapieco To Compete At Last Chance Meet Meet Schedule ALBANY, N.Y. – Hot on the heels of yet another conference championship, the University at Albany will send two men’s indoor track athletes, Alexander Bowen and Alfonso Scannapieco, to Boston University to compete in the BU Last Chance Meet on Sunday, March 2. This meet…
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Last Contact with Pioneer 10
January 23, 2003 The last successful contact was made with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects in the universe. Pioneer 10 is heading in the direction of the star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus at roughly 2.6 AU per year. If Aldebaran had zero relative velocity, it would take Pioneer 10 about 2 million years…
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Last Flight of the Concorde
October 24, 2003 The Concorde supersonic jet makes its last commercial flight. While being able to cross the Atlantic in about 3.5 hours, low passenger numbers and rising maintenance costs made operating the Concorde unprofitable for British Airways and Air France. This Day in Tech History