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25 Nov 2025
Connecting with the fantastic @WeAreRSGroup staff as we prepare for an exciting day of innovation, tech & hands-on demos🤝
đź“ŤWe're ready to welcome customers & showcase our smart solutions tomorrow at the Coventry Building Society Arena
Visit us at booth E18!đź‘‹
#RSConnectUK2025
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Greetings from SPS Germany 2025!
If you're in Nuremberg this week, stop by @WeAreRSGroup's stand to explore how solutions like the Opta and Nicla Vision are enabling the next gen of industrial IoT, edge AI, and digital automation applications. Plus, see the new UNO Q in action!
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14 Oct 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1977, The Atari 2600 was released in North America, though it may have been available in Macy’s and Sears on September 11.
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24 Sep 2025
On This Day | In 1979, CompuServe began offering a consumer version of its dial-up online information service called MicroNET. The name would later be changed to CompuServe and offer public email among other online services.
#OTD #OnThisDay #CompuServe
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14 Sep 2025
On This Day | In 1956, IBM introduced the IBM 350 disk storage unit for the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
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28 Aug 2025
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#WeAreRS #Weller #Win
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25 Jul 2025
On This Day | In 1959, Christopher Cockerell’s Hovercraft crossed the English Channel for the first time, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Frenchman Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel heavier-than-air flight.
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24 Jul 2025
On This Day | In 1969, Apollo 11 arrived safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
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21 Jul 2025
On This Day | In 1904, French driver Louis Rigolly became the first person to exceed 100 miles per hour in an automobile, reaching a speed of 103.56 mph (166.65 km/h) in a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié on the beach at Ostend, Belgium.
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12 Jul 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1949, At an IBM sales meeting, Thomas J. Watson Jr. predicted that within 10 years, electronics would replace moving parts in machines. His vision launched IBM into dominating the computer industry.
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4 Jul 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1956, The five-year-old MIT computer Whirlwind added the ability to input data directly with a keyboard.
Programmers began to enjoy independence from punch cards.
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3 Jul 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1886, Karl Benz drove his Patent Motor Wagen on Mannheim’s Ringstraße, reaching a top speed of 10 mph powered by a 0.75-hp one-cylinder four-stroke petrol engine.
It was the first public drive of what is considered the first purpose-built automobile.
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2 Jul 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1897, 23-year-old Guglielmo Marconi received a patent in England for his wireless telegraphy which we now call radio. The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Co. Ltd. was formed a few weeks later.
#OTD #OnThisDay #Radio
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1 Jul 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1979, Sony introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2. It weighed 14 ounces, was blue and silver, and had a second earphone jack. It was originally marketed in the US as the Sound-About and in the UK as the Stowaway.
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30 Jun 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1945, The first draft of a Report on the EDVAC was published.
It discussed the advantages of using just one large internal memory, in which instructions as well as data could be held.
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29 Jun 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1975, Steve Wozniak built the first prototype of the Apple I, the first computer to show letters on the screen as you typed them.
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28 Jun 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1965 , Officials in the US and Europe conducted the first commercial telephone conversation over satellite Early Bird I. The satellite also began operating for television transmission “live via satellite.”
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27 Jun 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1972, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney filed incorporation papers for Atari, Inc. and got ready to release its first product, a game called Pong.
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26 Jun 2025
ON THIS DAY | In 1974, At 8:01 AM, a supermarket cashier scanned a 10-pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum across a bar-code scanner at Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
It was the first product ever checked out by Universal Product Code.
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