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Other factoids from 1958

* The Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat the Edmonton Eskimos in the first CFL game, 29 to 21.
* ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency - the agency that spawns the ARPANet, which subsequently becomes the Internet) is one year old.
* Elvis Presley's burgeoning music career is interrupted as he joins the U.S. army at a Memphis, Tennessee induction center.
* IBM announces computer models 7070 and 7090, among the first to be fully transistorized.

You'll notice mention of 'fully transistorized' computers in this and the previous post. Remember that before the transistor was invented at Bell Labs all computers ran on vacuum tubes, and were HUGE.