38 years ago IBM came out with the IBM 5150 and it was not what we are used. IBM 5100 The CPU was from Intel, which is the leader in the CPU chips and the operating system was from Microsoft. Microsoft licensed it to IBM as PC-DOS. They sold for […]
Monthly Archives: March 2019
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The 1970s came and went and that decade brought some pretty amazing things in the form of gadgets and technology. Some of that technology will make a big impact in the 1980s and spearhead the future. Technology from the ’80s Here is some stuff that came along in the 1980s. […]
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 […]
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 […]