...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 |
| 6480925 | Compact and versatile SCA to SCSI bus adapter A compact adapter for interconnecting a digital computer peripheral device that uses a Single Connector Attachment ("SCA") to a conventional Small Computer System Interface ("SCSI") bus. A SCA connector of the adapter mates with and engages a complementar... | 11/12/2002 |
| 5680587 | Enhanced-performance floppy diskette subsystem An enhanced-performance floppy diskette subsystem, which operates many times faster than a conventional floppy diskette subsystem, includes both an enhanced-performance floppy diskette drive and floppy diskette drive controller. The diskette drive rotates... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5680555 | Host adapter providing automatic terminator configuration A host adapter, having at least two connectors which both belong to a single digital computer bus, includes a first terminator that is coupled to a first portion of the digital computer bus, and a second terminator that is coupled to a second, separate po... | 10/21/1997 |