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Connecting with the fantastic @WeAreRSGroup staff as we prepare for an exciting day of innovation, tech & hands-on demos🤝 📍We're ready to welcome customers & showcase our smart solutions tomorrow at the Coventry Building Society Arena Visit us at booth E18!👋 #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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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. #OnThisDay #OTD
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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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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. #OTD #OnThisDay #IBM
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Are you a fan of @WellerTools? Well we're giving you the chance to win the Weller 80 Years Black Limited Edition Bundle featuring: ▶️ Weller WE1010 Soldering Station Black Limited Edition ▶️ Weller Zero-Smog Shield Black Limited Edition Fume Extractor Don't miss out, it's free to enter! ➡️ weare.rs/47jnpWu ⬅️ #WeAreRS #Weller #Win
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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. #OTD #OnThisDay
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On This Day | In 1969, Apollo 11 arrived safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first manned mission to land on the Moon. #OTD #OnThisDay #Apollo11
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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. #OTD #OnThisDay
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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. #OTD #OnThisDay #IBM
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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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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. #OTD
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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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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. #OTD #OnThisDay
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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. #OTD #OnThisDay #EDVAC
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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. #OTD #OnThisDay #AppleI
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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.” #OTD #OnThisDay
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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. #OnThisDay #OTD #Atari #Pong
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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. #OnThisDay #OTD
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Oscars now accept AI films… but who really deserves the credit, the writer or the engineer behind the tech? 🎬 Here’s why it matters, 👉 From voice cloning to CGI, engineers are shaping the future of film. Tell us what you think 👇 #WeAreRS #Oscars #AIFlim
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