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The 1970s was also the beginning of the video game era. Atari established itself as the dominant force in home video gaming, first with its home version of the arcade game Pong and later in the decade with the Atari 2600 console (originally called the "VCS", or Video Computer System). By 1979, the scene was set for the Golden Age of Arcade Games.
'Monstrous moonshine': John Conway and Simon P. Norton prove there is a connection between the Monster group M and the j-function in number theory. [1]The first modern Sudoku, known as Number Place, appears in Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games (United States), devised by Howard Garns.
In 1979, Atari's Asteroids would prove to be incredibly popular. 1979: US Programming language Ada introduced by Jean Ichbiah and team at Honeywell for the US Department of Defense. 1 Jun 1979: US Introduction of the Intel 8088, compatible with the 8086 with an 8-bit data bus – but this makes it cheaper to implement in computers.
1979 in technology (5 C) B. 1970s in biotechnology (10 C) C. ... Pages in category "1970s in technology" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
For some time there was a major market for assembled versions of the Altair 8800, a market that grew significantly through the late 1970s and into the early 1980s. The introduction of three computers aimed at personal users in 1977, the Radio Shack TRS-80 , Apple II , and Commodore PET , significantly changed the American microcomputer market ...
Processing power and storage capacities have grown beyond all recognition since the 1970s, but the underlying technology has remained basically the same of large-scale integration (LSI) or very-large-scale integration (VLSI) microchips, so it is widely regarded that most of today's computers still belong to the fourth generation.
Technology companies by year of establishment ... 1970 in technology (6 C, 1 P) 1971 in technology (3 C, ... 1979 in technology (5 C) 1980 in technology ...
1970 Forth (implementation) Charles H. Moore: 1970 POP-2: Robin Popplestone: POP-1 1970 SAIL: Dan Swinehart, Bob Sproull: ALGOL 60: 1970 Pascal: Niklaus Wirth, Kathleen Jensen ALGOL 60, ALGOL W: 1970 BLISS: Wulf, Russell, Habermann at Carnegie Mellon University: ALGOL: 1971 KRL: Daniel G. Bobrow at Xerox PARC, Terry Winograd at Stanford ...