Yes. But this quote
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Originally Posted by Delvo  But the Judgment Day that happened in #3 is not the one that had happened in #1; it created yet another new contradictory story instead of restoring the original. |
says that T3 contradicts T1. As far as I know (unless there is another version of the movie floating around somewhere) there was never a specific date given for Judgment Day in T1. The 1997 date was given in T2.
In T1 the process concerning Skynet's super intelligence was only explained on a broad scale. I don't believe Dyson was ever mentioned in that movie, and Reese says that "it was new, hooked into everything, and then it got smart." the nature of the technology as explained in T1 was a computer defense system, built by cyberdine systems. that's pretty much all they told the audience about it.
As far as T3 goes, I see a contradiction of T1 nowhere in all of that. It does contradict T2, but T2 contradicts T1. That is why I say T2 veered off course, and T3 put the story back on course. T1 was never about stopping Judgment Day like T2 was. John Connor couldn't exist if Judgment Day never happed.