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Is Apple TV the next great gaming console?

by Chris Holt, Macworld.com

Time was, you could mention Apple and gaming in the same sentence and count on derisive laughter before you got to the period. Through the decades, the company has repeatedly proclaimed its commitment to the games market and repeatedly failed to deliver. Yet today’s Apple is not remotely the company that launched the ill-fated Pippin game console in the ’90s. The iOS is already a massively successful platform for handheld gaming, and if Wednesday brings an iOS-based Apple TV, Apple is poised to make some serious noise in the console gaming market as well.

 

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Evolution of Computers

1. 1936 - Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer
First freely programmable computer.

2. 1942 - John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
ABC Computer.

3. 1944 - Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper
Harvard Mark I Computer.

4. 1946 - John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
ENIAC 1 Computer 20,000 vacuum tubes later...

5. 1948 - Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn
Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube Baby.

6. 1947/48 - John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley
The Transistor. No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers.

7. 1951 - John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
UNIVAC Computer First commercial computer to be able to pick presidential winners.

8. 1953 - International Business Machines
IBM 701 EDPM Computer. IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'.

9. 1954 - John Backus & IBM
FORTRAN Computer Programming Language. The first successful high level programming language.

10. 1955 (In Use 1959) - Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric
ERMA and MICR. The first bank industry computer - also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks.

11. 1958 - Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
The Integrated Circuit Otherwise known as 'The Chip'

12. 1962 - Steve Russell & MIT
Spacewar Computer Game. The first computer game invented.

13. 1964 - Douglas Engelbart
Computer Mouse & Windows. Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.

14. 1969 - ARPAnet
The original Internet.

15. 1970 - Intel 1103 Computer Memory
The world's first available dynamic RAM chip.

16. 1971 - Faggin, Hoff & Mazor
Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor. The first microprocessor.

17. 1971 - Alan Shugart & IBM
The "Floppy" Disk. Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility.

18. 1973 - Robert Metcalfe & Xerox
The Ethernet, Computer Networking.

19. 1974/75 - Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers
The first consumer computers.

20. 1976/77 - Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers
More first consumer computers.

21. 1978 - Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston
VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software. Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner.

22. 1979 - Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby
WordStar Software. Word Processors.

23. 1981 - IBM
The IBM PC - Home Computer. From an "Acorn" grows a personal computer revolution

24. 1981 - Microsoft
MS-DOS Computer Operating System. From "Quick And Dirty" comes the operating system of the century.

25. 1983 - Apple Lisa Computer
The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.

26. 1984 - Apple Macintosh Computer
The more affordable home computer with a GUI.

27. 1985 - Microsoft Windows. Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.