In 1978 Parker Brothers brought to live something that was brought to this world by NASA, employee Bob Doyle, his wife Holly and brother-in-law, Wendl Thomas. No, this wasn’t brought from space or anything like that but it was invented, yes invented. It played games. What games did it have […]
1970’s
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Video games in the 1970s were mainly a novelty item and Nolan Bushnell worked at Lagoon, an amusement park in Utah, during the summer and he was over the arcade games. He saw Spacewar running on a mainframe (a type of computer in the 1960s) at the University of Utah […]
So I am a little out of order here talking about Pong, towards the end of the 1970’s gadgets. Yes, Pong came out in 1972. I have my reasons. Atari Was released a version of Pong in 1972. The idea of a Pong was a bit of training exercise and […]
Atari came out with a gaming system earlier in the 1970s, 1972 to be exact. Here is the post about it. They did it again in 1978. Atari 800 Here are the details Announced: 1978 Released: 1979 Price: $995.00 (USD) CPU: MOS 6502, 1.8MHz Ram: 8k Base, 48k Max (huge) […]
CDs is what these are called and they have a long history which spans the 1960’s to today. So why is this in the gadgets or technology of the 1970s. That is a good question and we will see what we can find out. Released CD’s where actually released in […]
So in 1977, the Tandy Corporation came out with the Home Computer. It was released on August 3, 1977. That was 42 years ago if anyone is counting. By the time 1979, came around they had sold 100,000 units. Tandy Corporation We won’t get into much here, but they Tandy […]
This new gadget (in the ’80s) changed the way I listened to music almost overnight. I could put in my favorite tape either a U2, AC/DC, Guns and Roses or a tape I recorded off the radio and listen to while I ran, rode my bike, did yard work or […]
The year is 2019 and Apple was founded in 1976, on April 1 two college dropouts, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple. Garages Why does it seem that a lot of companies are formed in garages and then they become huge. Apple wasn’t that different. Apple I was created […]
Computers didn’t come from space, did they? Come from the future? No, of course, they didn’t. So where did they come from? In 1974, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry systems invented something called a microcomputer called the Altair 8800. Became so popular that it was published on the cover of Popular […]
Photography has come a long way since the 1800’s when this photo was taken Photos back in the late 1800s and early 1900’s it took some time to develop the film. But in the 1947 Polaroid introduced something called the Land Camera Model 95 which used something called instant film. […]
In 1972, Atari was formed and by August the first Pong game was completed. But, let’s go back in time to get the full background. Early days In 1966 at the University of Utah, Nolan Bushnell saw something called Spacewar!, he worked with Ted Dabney and they found that they […]
So this didn’t start in 1970 it really started in 1969 in Bell Labs, which was a division of AT&T when hen Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and many others started working on this thing called Unix. Start of Unix It was all written in C and it started progress that […]
When you think of the gadgets you think of the latest and the greatest but where did all these bloom from? They had to come from somewhere, right? That iPhone didn’t come from the Pegasus galaxy via the Stargate. They didn’t come from Vulcan, unlike velcro did in the episode called Carbon […]