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The Gavilan SC is an early laptop computer first released by the Gavilan Computer Corporation in April 1984. The computer ran on an Intel 8088 microprocessor running at 5 MHz and sported a touchpad for a pointing device , one of the first computers to do so.
One workaround is to use the year 1996, 2024 or 2052 in lieu of 2080 (as compatible leap years) to display the correct day of the week, date and month on the main screen. [ citation needed ] Systems storing the year as a two-digit value 00..99 internally only, like many RTCs, may roll over from 31 December 2079, to the IBM PC and DOS epoch of ...
Stacie Peterson, director of exhibitions and collections at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, shows an historical office memo during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at ...
A time capsule at the Kumzhensky memorial in Russia. On 7 May 2005, a time capsule was placed at the Kumzhensky memorial in Russia with an instruction to open on 9 May 2045. In 2012, a time capsule dating from 15 July 1979 was found in Vulkanny (Yelizovsky District, Kamchatka peninsula) under a statue of Lenin.
In a story that captures Baltimore's personality -- uniquely quirky and a little bit mysterious -- the 200-year-old contents of a time capsule found inside the cornerstone were unveiled Wednesday.
The capsule was funded by the New York Times who chose artist Santiago Calatrava to design the project. [4] The capsule was cast in 1999 at the A.R.T. Research Enterprises foundry in Lancaster, PA at a cost of $60,000. [4] The stainless steel piece weighs 2800 lbs an is approxomately 5' X 5' X 5'. The official dedication was on March, 26th 2000 ...
The Crypt of Civilization (1936) at Oglethorpe University, intended to be opened in 8113, is claimed to be the first "modern" time capsule, although it was not called one at the time. [citation needed] During the socialist period in the USSR, many time capsules were buried with messages to a future communist society. [16]
The Yahoo!Time Capsule, a brainchild of Jonathan Harris, is a time capsule project by Yahoo! Inc. where users could contribute to a digital legacy of how life was in 2006. . The Time Capsule was originally intended to be beamed with a laser into space from a Mexican pyramid in an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life