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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| 7321212 | Restricted motion motor control with visual indication A visual indication for a motor controlled shaft, especially useful for retrofitting hand controlled printing presses. ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7049048 | Alkali resistant polymeric interlayers for lithoplates Substrates for lithographic printing plate precursors and lithographic printing plate precursors are disclosed. The substrates comprise an aluminum or aluminum alloy support and the a layer of interlayer material on the support. The interlayer material is a co-polym... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6786149 | High speed continuous feed printing system A CF printing system includes at least three CF printing devices; a plurality of print-related devices to effect duplex printing; the printing and print-related devices being selectably operable in accordance with a defined print line segment; and a print line manag... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6666399 | System for transfer and inversion of a continuous web substrate between printing and other devices An inverting transfer apparatus for continuous web substrate, such as may utilize a single printing system including a conventional or existing simplex web-fed xerographic print engine.... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6615717 | Symmetrical parallel duplex paper path device A parallel duplex paper path device is provided for feeding a recording medium along a feed direction from a first printing device to a second printing device, which are arranged in parallel. The paper path device comprises at least two turning stations t... | 09/09/2003 |
