It was the year 1990 something and then there was this thing called a dial-up modem for the Internet it would change how the world views information Not War Games Back in the year 1983, there was a movie called wargames, it was about a teenager who used a modem […]
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Sweet a piece of technology I can get behind, video while I cook my toast, right? Is that what you are thinking when you hear “Video Toaster” But, it isn’t what I was thinking it was. So what exactly is the Video Toaster? What is it If you add hardware […]
It was the year 1990 something and Microsoft, released version 3.0 which became a very widely successful version of the Windows operating service. It rivaled Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga as the windows version had a Graphical user interface (GUI) How it came about In 1988, two developed separate […]
So far we have seen a lot of interesting things that have helped this world become more technology bound. This is the decade of things will start to change the world. The 1990’s and the technology that was invented in this decade. The 1990’s and the technology that was invented […]
We started down this path from the 1970’s and know we are starting in explore 1990 technology. It has been a great ride learning about the technology that came before this era. 1970’s Tech We have talked about the following: Land line phones Unix Atari Pong The Walkman Some of […]
The year was 1985 and time travel was invented. The ability to travel back in time has been talked about before and it has been used by the following: Dr. Who Used a phone booth called a Tardis The Terminator was able to transfer one person with no clothes on. […]
It was the year 1989 and well the next piece of technology I am going to talk about as well an 8-bit handheld game device. What?? A handheld game device, what in the world is this coming to? Introduction On April 21, 1989, I was in my JR year in […]
It was 1980 something, meaning it was the year 1989 and something called high-definition television. This can be done in digital or analog. You can use this in terrestrial, cable, satellite, Blu-ray discs and streaming videos. Formats This can be transmitted in a number of formats they are the following: […]
The year was 1980’s something, well it was actually the year 1988 on the technology timeline when Doppler Radar came around. So what exactly is doppler radar? History In 1940’s the military used the effects of Doppler Radar as it is lightweight and reduces the heavy pulse hardware. Continuous-broadcast or […]
It was 1980 something and if you wanted to make a call you would have to use one of these bad boys. Or find a landline phone. You know what a landline phone is right, if not then here is a picture. Then comes a break in technology in the […]
Can you even think of the possibility of taking photos on a camera then sending that camera in to get photos off of it and never seeing that camera again? Sounds something like an episode out of the twilight zone and it isn’t a real thing. Who would throw away […]
In 1985 Microsoft this small little company paired up with another small company called Apple. The worked together to develop some applications for the January 1984 release of original Macintosh. Apple introduced this in January 1984 and it was the first computer to offer the Graphical User Interface Windows 1.0 […]
With the computer era upon us, the people in the industry were always thinking of ways they can improve. How can we get our software out there to the public quicker? That is the question I would be thinking. CD Rom In 1982 a Japanese company called Denon came up […]
This is probably the most awesome technology advance that ever happened here on this World. Not saying in the universe, but in this world, Nothing will ever top these Cabbage patch kids. No not really, I was just kidding, but why do I have these here. Cabbage Patch Kids Who […]
Local Integrated Software Architecture was designed in the earlies 1980’s. However, the project was started in 1978. Lisa This was Steve Jobs daughter and it also stands for Local Integrated Software Architecture. Steve Jobs was removed, but forced out. So Steve Jobs went to the Macintosh project. The LISA project, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
So I thought I about this after I posted the post about phones, I touched a little bit about landline phones. But what really is a landline phone and what does it have to do with gadgeting. Well, it has a lot to do with gadgeting as it inspires people […]