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State-of-the-art integrated circuit and LED display. Although efficient, it was far from affordable and attainable.
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They were plastic tapes that held movies and cartoons.They were durable and took as less space than the reels of film.
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Available by IBM in 1971, transfer data, and create backups. Government still uses them today to keep records.
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In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent messages to himself on side by side devices, thus creating email. He did it on ARPANET, a basis for the internet.
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Dynatron made the 1st Music Centre. It was high priced but combined a record player, cassette tape recorder, and radio combined.
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As cigarette companies lost popularity because of the commercial ban, prices dropped and the corporations claimed the larger cigarettes to be "safe", thus creating the popular king size cigarette.
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Created by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall. It was an American sport kicking a fist sized ball with a partner or a group.
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It was one of the first arcade games. It is a table tennis based game with simple 2-D graphics.
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The release of this gaming system put console gaming on the map. It was called Atari VCS (Video Computer System) and first released the game Pong.
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In 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper used the worlds first commercial mobile phone to call Bell Labs in New Jersey. Today it would cost $10,000 to buy.
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A commonly used invention, even today, the bar was a machine that read code and represented its data by varying bar widths.
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It was invented by Steven Sasson, a Kodak engineer. It weighed 3.6 kilograms, had a resolution of .01 megapixels and took 23 seconds to capture its image.
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Although invented in 1976, it became a consumer item in 1988. Today it would cost $1000 to buy. The black ink is one of the most expensive liquids in the world, it costs mire than space shuttle fuel.
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IN 1974, Art Fry came up with the idea of using an adhesive to stick his bookmark to his book. His notes have been used ever since worldwide.
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It was created by Steve Wozniak in 1977. Although preceded by Apple I, it laid the foundation for Apples trajectory as a computer company.