Did You Know...
...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 |
| 6275897 | Remote cache utilization for mirrored mass storage subsystem A digital computer system includes a master mass storage subsystem and a slave mass storage subsystem which provides mirrored storage for the master mass storage subsystem. One or more host computer systems can access information in the master mass storag... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6202135 | System and method for reconstructing data associated with protected storage volume stored in multiple modules of back-up mass data storage facility A digital data processing system comprises a host information generating device, a mass storage subsystem, and a back-up information storage subsystem. The host information generating device generates information and provides it to the mass storage subsys... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6148382 | Arrangement for filtering data item updates to reduce the number of updates to a data item to be stored on mass data storage facility A digital data processing system comprises a host information generating device, a mass storage subsystem, and a back-up information storage subsystem. The host information generating device generates information and provides it to the mass storage subsys... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6101588 | Device level busy arrangement for mass storage subsystem including a plurality of devices A mass storage subsystem is used with a digital data processing system, the digital data processing system also including at least one host computer for generating access requests. The mass storage subsystem includes a data storage subsystem, a cache memo... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6076148 | Mass storage subsystem and backup arrangement for digital data processing system which permits information to be backed up while host computer(s) continue(s) operating in connection with information stored on mass storage subsystem A computer system includes a host computer, a mass storage subsystem and a backup subsystem for backing up information stored on the mass storage subsystem. The mass storage subsystem stores information on a series of tracks. A backup bit map includes a p... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6032262 | Disk drive reliability determination system and method A system and method are provided for generating a reliability assessment of a disk drive. The disk drive includes at least one rotatable disk having a surface, and a slider positioned proximate said surface, the slider having a contour that cooperates wit... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6029229 | Digital data storage subsystem including directory for efficiently providing formatting information for stored records A new digital data storage system comprises at least one storage device, a memory and a control device. The storage device retrievably stores a series of records. The memory stores at least one descriptor for describing at least one selected format attrib... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6029166 | System and method for generating an operating system-independent file map An operating system-independent file map generator generates an operating system-independent map of a file stored on a mass storage subsystem, the mass storage subsystem including at least one storage device, the at least one storage device including a se... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6003114 | Caching system and method providing aggressive prefetch A mass storage subsystem includes one or more data stores for storing information for access by one or more devices such as host computers, and a cache memory, and connects to a slave mass storage subsystem which provides mirrored storage for the informat... | 12/14/1999 |
