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First email from space comes from Mac: Today in Apple history (cultofmac.com)
1 point by rbanffy 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Article is from 2024. Email referenced in title was sent in 1991, August 28, by the crew of the Atlantis space shuttle.

> [T]he message reads, “Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a GREAT time, wish you were here,…send cryo and RCS! Hasta la vista, baby,…we’ll be back!”

It was sent “using a Macintosh Portable and AppleLink software”.




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