...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8106302 | Circuit board of communication product and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a circuit board of a communication product and a manufacturing method thereof. The circuit board comprises a main body of a circuit board and an isolation cover. A surface of the main body of the circuit board has a power transistor, a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7999195 | Circuit board having isolation cover and assembling method thereof The present invention provides a circuit board having an isolation cover and an assembling method thereof. The circuit board of the present invention comprises a main body and an isolation cover disposed on the circuit board main body. The main body and the isolatio... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7958625 | Assembly device An assembly device includes a base having a supporting portion upon which an isolation cover and a main body are disposed. A press-fitting mechanism is movably connected to the base, and includes a press-fitting portion facing the supporting portion and disposed cor... | 06/14/2011 |
| D635106 | Housing for communication equipment | 03/29/2011 |
| D634720 | Housing for communication equipment | 03/22/2011 |
| D621359 | Signal transmission line connector | 08/10/2010 |
| D602933 | Portable computer | 10/27/2009 |
| D601139 | Portable computer | 09/29/2009 |
| 7573936 | Error detection/correction system for cable modem and method thereof A error detection/correction system includes a plurality of cable modems for error detection/correction, a CMTS connected with the cable modems for access of MAC addresses of the cable modems and for controlling allocation of data flow of the cable modems, and a sam... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7375976 | Housing for communication apparatus capable of installing LED lamps having horizontal or vertical emitting direction therein, and communication apparatus comprising the same A communication apparatus includes a housing and an electronic device installed in the housing. The housing has a shell body having a top wall, a front wall and a mounting zone defined by a part of the top wall and a part of the front wall, and a cover coupled to th... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7341488 | EMI-resistant circuit board assembly An EMI-resistant circuit board assembly includes a plurality of circuit boards arranged in a stack and a metal shielding frame respectively sandwiched in between each two adjacent circuit boards. One of the circuit boards has at least one high-speed device producing... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7292625 | Downstream power calibration method on cable modem A downstream power calibration method comprises the following procedures. First, select base sampling frequencies and sampling power levels, thereby generating base sampling signals. Next, input base sampling signals into a modem such that obtaining each sum of the ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7066753 | Electronic device capable of multidirectional rotation An electronic device, which is capable of multidirectional rotation, includes a connecting unit, which has a connecting portion at one end detachably connectable to an external electronic device and a spherical ball socket at an opposite end, and a body unit having ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6980643 | Fallback function telecommunications device The invention herein is fallback function communications device comprised of a microprocessor, utilized to perform a predetermined operation and processing of a predetermined input signal and then output a corresponding signal, as well as a minimum of one relay circ... | 12/27/2005 |