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IBM System 360 Changes the Industry Forever
April 7, 1964 IBM launches the System 360 mainframe architecture, which comprised six compatible models complete with 40 peripherals. The line, dubbed the “360″ because it addressed all types and sizes of customer, cost IBM over five billion dollars to develop, and it is widely considered one of the riskiest business gambles of all time.…
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Enough is enough: shut it down, a march for Donald Ivy
By Nick MuscavageStaff Writertheaspnews@gmail.comApril 7, 2014 Crowds of people gathered to peacefully protest at the corner of Arch and Broad Street outside the South Station of Albany Police Department on April 3, 2015. This corner is less than a ten-minute drive from Lark and Second Street where Donald Ivy, 39, was tasered by three Albany police…
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Baseball walks off to take series over Hartford
By Aaron Cheris Sports Editor sports.asp@gmail.com April 6, 2015 Photo by UAlbany Athletics. Will Miller scored UAlbany’s first run on Monday. Time and time again on Monday afternoon at Varsity Field, the University at Albany baseball team squandered opportunities to score with men in scoring position. In the bottom of the 10th inning, the Great…
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Baseball walks off to take series over Hartford
By Aaron Cheris Sports Editor sports.asp@gmail.com April 6, 2015 Photo by UAlbany Athletics. Will Miller scored UAlbany’s first run on Monday. Time and time again on Monday afternoon at Varsity Field, the University at Albany baseball team squandered opportunities to score with men in scoring position. In the bottom of the 10th inning, the Great…
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Baseball walks off to take series over Hartford
By Aaron Cheris Sports Editor sports.asp@gmail.com April 6, 2015 Photo by UAlbany Athletics. Will Miller scored UAlbany’s first run on Monday. Time and time again on Monday afternoon at Varsity Field, the University at Albany baseball team squandered opportunities to score with men in scoring position. In the bottom of the 10th inning, the Great…
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Windows 3.1 Released
April 6, 1992 Microsoft releases Windows 3.1, priced at $ 149.00, selling three million copies over the next two months. Windows 3.1 added multimedia extensions allowing support for sound cards, MIDI, and CD Audio, Super VGA (800 x 600) monitors, and increased the speed of modem it would support to 9600 bps. For many of us that…
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SA Meeting on Wednesday, April 1
By Nick Muscavage Staff Writer theaspnews@gmail.com April 2, 2015 The Student Association senate meeting on April 1 began with the three guest speakers: Interim Vice President for Student Success Michael Christakis, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost James Stellar, and University at Albany President Robert J. Jones. The speakers’ main purpose was to…
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SA Meeting on Wednesday, April 1
By Nick Muscavage Staff Writer theaspnews@gmail.com April 2, 2015 The Student Association senate meeting on April 1 began with the three guest speakers: Interim Vice President for Student Success Michael Christakis, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost James Stellar, and University at Albany President Robert J. Jones. The speakers’ main purpose was to…
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SA Meeting on Wednesday, April 1
By Nick Muscavage Staff Writer theaspnews@gmail.com April 2, 2015 The Student Association senate meeting on April 1 began with the three guest speakers: Interim Vice President for Student Success Michael Christakis, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost James Stellar, and University at Albany President Robert J. Jones. The speakers’ main purpose was to…
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SA Meeting on Wednesday, April 1
By Nick Muscavage Staff Writer theaspnews@gmail.com April 2, 2015 The Student Association senate meeting on April 1 began with the three guest speakers: Interim Vice President for Student Success Michael Christakis, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost James Stellar, and University at Albany President Robert J. Jones. The speakers’ main purpose was to…