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 […]
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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 […]
Is a big part of today’s world people are connected to all forms of social media. Like Facebook Twitter Instagram Tumbler Flicker Google + (but that is going away) YouTube Snapchat Pinterest There are some more out there which means that I have created some social media accounts. Facebook I […]
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 […]
We moved on from Records to something called 8-track and then cassettes. 8-track never caught on. I had a few, well, my parents had a few growing up and our stereo played them along with records, radio, and cassettes. 8-track tapes These were a different type of music as it […]
From 1964 to 10 1988 8 track tapes were a thing, that is if you lived in Japan, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. If you lived in another country then you probably have never heard of these before. 1964 Bill Lear, yes of the […]
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 […]
Jumping back in time a little bit. But, we had these things called landline telephones. Yes, some people still have them today. But, growing up they were a lot different than they are now They were a nice gadget to have. I am not going into a long detail of […]
I am going back to old school gadgets, the type of gadgets you had to have to listen to the music besides the radio. You know that thing in the car, on the wall, the clock radio. Yes, those existed. I had one growing up and I just got rid […]
The Why page talks about what this Website is all about. The domain name might be iamgadgetguy.com, but this site is more than just about gadget’s. Yes, I got this domain thinking about doing reviews on just gadgets that would be fun. Gadgets are great. However, life is more than […]