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Bernoulli Box
Named after Daniel Bernoulli
This would be a high capacity magnetic drive with removable disk cartridges, able to store 10MB of data for personal computers. Instead of heads having constant contact with a disc, the Bernoulli disks used a cushion of air with voice coil mechanism to maintain head right above the surface. Better tracking precision could be provided by using feedback to position the head over track. -
First Macintosh computer
Inventor : Steve Jobs
This would be the first commercially successful personal computer. This computer featured a built in screen, the mouse and the graphical user interface. This invention also helped establish the desktop publishing market. -
Flash Memory
Inventor: Fujio Masuoka
Entire sections of memory able to erase and be reprogrammed multiple times and done very quickly. -
Connection Machine CM-1
Inventor: Daniel Hillis
Moving AI further, this invention could complete several billion operations per second and was a controversial concept of massive parallelism. Each processor had own small memory linked to others that users changed by reprogramming. The systems connections could broadcast information & requests in simulation of brain like associative recall and would work faster than any other machine. -
Nintendo GameBoy
This console provided good graphics and used removable game cartridges to play on its 2.9-inch black and white screen. Popularity boosted with the release of the puzzle game Tetris. It was one of the all-time, top-selling game systems. The portable lightweight device allowed gamers to play wherever. Affordable, easy to play, & built to last.