1930s SatNav – The First In-Car Navigation System The GPS Navigation system is one of the most useful things to ever be born out of modern technology. However, if you think it’s a fairly recent invention, let the world’s…
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The invention of the computer mouse and use the cathode-ray tube for the display of text, of graphics and of the mouse pointer (the monitor as we know it today) has revolutionized the world of computers today. Like many other…
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Electronic Quarterback Formerly the Connecticut Leather Company, Coleco had turned to electronics in the 1970s. When the company saw the success of Mattel’s handheld Football game, it quickly came out with a copycat device. Electronic Quarterback was a handheld electronic…
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The Worlds First LED Digital Watch The first digital wrist watch was made by American timepiece manufacturer Hamilton Watch Company in 1972. The Pulsar wrist watch, was made of 18-carat gold, costing $2,100. Time was shown by pressing a button…
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The 8010 Information System from Xerox was the first system to use a fully integrated desktop application suite. Initially the term “Star” referred to the application and desktop software. However the system as a whole became commonly known as “The…
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The First Digital Camera Kodak engineer Steve Sasson created this first digital camera in December of 1975. It was a camera that didn’t use any film to capture still images, it would capture images using a CCD imager & digitize…
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The IIGS was the continuation of the earlier Apple II computer line, Released on Apple’s 10th anniversary. It was designed to be backwards compatible with Apple II software and hardware. The first 10,000 Apple IIGS computers (GS = graphics +…
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The Compucolor 8001, the first desktop color graphic computer Developed by Intelligent Systems Corporation (ISC), ISC was started in 1973 by Charles A. Muench. Prime focus of the company was to develop a color computer graphics terminal which will…
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With the uprising competition in late eighties, there were PC laptops on the market, few were as fast or powerful as the Macintosh Portable, it is Apple’s first portable Macintosh computer with a 68000 processor running at 16 MHz and…
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