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1976 Technology & Gadgets
Space Shuttle - The Enterprise is completed in California by the Rockwell Company. Originally named the Constitution a popular write-in from Star Trek fans managed to rename it the Enterprise after the name fictional starship from the television series. History of the first Space Shuttle Enterprise
Face on Mars - NASA releases the famous picture taken by the Viking I spacecraft. Both Viking I and Viking II land safely on Mars. Viking face on Mars website
The Cray-1 - Seymor Cray for of Research sold the first supercomputer to Los Alamos National Laboratory for $8 million in 1976. It weighed 4 tons and was about 200 times slower than your desktop computer today.The Cray Supercomputer story
IBM 3800 is the first laser printer. Used for high volume banking statements and such, models very similar are still in use and marketed today. The IBM 3800 at IBM.
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