Ken Thompson was born in New Orleans in 1943. Dennis Ritch was born in New York in 1941. They were the last of Bell Labs engineers to leave Multics. Thompson wanted to keep playing his computer that he made. They invented the Unix in 1969, designed for multiple users and security. Bell Labs used Unix at work. Unix also powers MacOS.
Robert Noyce founder of Intel. Busicom asked Intel to build a processor for their calculator in 1969. Created the first microprocessor, the 4004, in 1971. Microprocessor: processing and control. The Control unit, driven by crystal clock, manage the operation. The apple computer was founded in 1976.
Ralph Baer was born in Germany in 1922. In 1943 he was drafted into World War II because of his skills. He climbed the electronics industry. Began working on TV projects for the military in 1950. He came up with an idea for a TV game in 1966. Magnavox Odyssey was released in 1972. It sold pretty well. Pong appeared in 1972. It is also a great game to play.
The VCR was released to the commercial industry in 1956. Betamax could only record one-hour movies. Sony developed Betamax. JVC developed VHS. The VHS playing VCR was released in the US in 1977. Tape heads transfer information from tape to screen. It also became cheaper to record home movies. The VHS was replaced by the DVD. It led to the development of DVDs, Bluray, and also Netflix.
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