of Nintendo came to it’s current glory. Nintendo has had many competitors over the years starting with Atari and Calico. In 1985 they took the rapidly failing game market by storm releasing the Nintendo Entertainment System along with 15 other games sold separately. By 1987 they have released 20 games including Metroid and Super Mario Brothers‚ and completed the annihilation of the Atari with the release of The Legend of Zelda. In 1996 there was the release of the Nintendo 64 which was almost
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Prologue: It takes a special kind of person to change the world. • Someone with the ability to bring true innovation to the world and the ability to make a difference. • Someone that can completely change the way we interact with gadgets and computers. That man is Steve Jobs. • CEO of Apple • Bad health o Everyone knew that the time would eventually come‚ but no one could have predicted that it’d happen so soon. ▪ On October 5th‚ 2011: Steve Jobs
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Homestead High School in Cupertino‚ California -Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland‚ Oregon - dropped out of college after six months -Given a job as a technician at Atari‚ Inc. in Los Gatos‚ California mid-1974 -Travelled in India in search of spiritual enlightenment. - left India after 7 months and returned to work at Atari. 1975 -began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Wozniak 1976 - Jobs and Wozniak formed their own business‚ which they named "Apple Computer Company"
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1983 because of the saturation of low quality games developed by third party game developers for the Atari System. The games were uninspiring or unattractive. * Domino effect: software houses collapsed because they had to reduce the price of their games‚ making the market price for games even lower for other software houses that soon collapsed due to profitability issues. * Caused Atari to sell their consoles ten times lower‚ 40:4. * Nintendo when entering the market had to sell the
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enrolled in a electronics class. He also had a summer job at HP. Steve and his friend Woz managed to build “ blue boxes “ Which allowed you to make calls for free. Steve got a job at Atari‚ which was a clear inspiration to start Apple. Here is when his career all started. While Steve was working at Atari in India‚ Hewlett Packard hired his friend Woz. Woz showed his computer design to Steve‚ Steve was very impressed. Woz and Steve needed $1‚000 to start building the first boards
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by batteries. One of their mistakes was misleading consumers into believing that the Odyssey would only on Magnavox televisions. It did‚ however‚ prove that consoles for the home could be designed. He list goes on from Atari Pong‚ Magnavox Odyssey 100‚ Magnavox Odyssey 200‚ Atari Super Pong‚ Wonder Wizard 7702‚ Coleco Telstar‚ Coleco Telstar Classic‚ Magnavox Odyssey 300‚ Magnavox Odyssey 400‚ Magnavox Odyssey 500‚ Fairchild channel F‚ Rca Studio 2‚ and the list goes on to present day. It was 1995
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invented; it was called Spacewar. The first home video game console came out in 1972 which was called Odyssey. Odyssey was a game counsel with only built in games. The second video game home console invented was Atari in 1977 which was the first game console to have game cartridges. Atari was really popular in the 1980’s. It sold about 3 million a year. Video games began to change in the late 1980’s. They started to spread to bars‚ nightclubs‚ and arcades plus more home video game consoles came
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Steve Jobs was born February 24‚ 1955‚ to two University of Wisconsin graduate students Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali. Steven would later be adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs he was named after his adopted father‚ Steven Paul Jobs. His mother worked as an accountant and his father was a Coast Guard veteran and a self-taught machinist. The family lived in Mountain View within California’s Silicon Valley. While in high school‚ Jobs spent his free time at Hewlett-Packard. It was there
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The first single chip CPU was the Intel 4004 invented in Nov 1971‚ a 4-bit processor meant for a calculator. It processed data in 4 bits‚ but its instructions were 8 bits long. Program and data were separate. In 1972‚ Texax Instruments followed the Intel 4004/4040 closely with the 4-bit TMS 1000‚ which was the first microprocessor to include enough RAM‚ and space for a program ROM‚ to allow it to operate without multiple external support chips. It also featured an innovative feature to add custom
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of college after six months and spent the next 18 months attending creative classes. Steve later described how one course in calligraphy sparked his love of typography. In 1974‚ Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Some months later he left Atari to find spiritual instruction in India‚ traveling the continent and experimenting with psychedelic drugs. In 1976‚ when Steve was just 21‚ he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage‚ and funded
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