1970s computer history

By jennii_
  • Home vcr invented

    Home vcr invented
    These tapes were more durable and took up less space than the reels of film. Bulky plastic tapes that held cartoons and movies. The VCR enhanced lives by letting people control when to watch their programs on their own time by recording them. That way, they were able to rewind it and watch it more then once when they wanted to.
  • Superpaint

    Superpaint
    SuperPaint was the first digital computer for drawing created by Ricard shoup and others at Palo Alto research center. High speed memory, ancestor for all modern paint programs and could create animation. For many artist this is something that they would be glad to have been invented though you can also paint on paper many people appreciate being able to draw on laptops and many shows/movies are made from computers.
  • Tv type writer

    Tv type writer
    Designed by Don Lancaster, the TV Typewriter is an easy to-build kit that can display alphanumeric information on a television. The design had two memory boards, could generate and store 512 characters as 16 lines of 32 characters. This was a good invention people cause many people get their information from watching television.
  • First digital camera

    First digital camera
    Steven Sasson invented the world's first digital camera. It was about 8 pounds and shot a mere 0.01 mp. He designed it while working at Eastman kodak. It has enhanced our life's by being able to capture our most important part of out lives.
  • MRI scanner

    MRI scanner
    "An MRI machine uses a powerful magnetic field to align the magnetization of some atomic nuclei in the body, and radio frequency fields to systematically alter the alignment of this magnetization". designed by Raymond Damadian. It has enhanced many peoples life's because it shows problems in our bodies that we are not able to see and with this it gives us result on what we can try to fix.