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 |
| 6712477 | Optical projection system including projection dome A visual workstation for use by a viewer includes a dome having an open front end and a truncated spherical inner dome surface. A work surface is disposed in front of and adjacent the dome front end. The work surface defines a viewer area on a side of the work surfa... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6530667 | Optical projection system including projection dome A visual workstation for use by a viewer includes a dome having an open front end and a truncated spherical inner dome surface. A work surface is disposed in front of and adjacent the dome front end. The work surface defines a viewer area on a side of the... | 03/11/2003 |
| 5500740 | Video signal processing with common delay line for luminance interpolation and color conversion A video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing a video signal recorded on a magnetic recording medium includes a modulating circuit for receiving a color-difference line-sequential signal and modulating the color-difference line-sequential signal at... | 03/19/1996 |
| 4734757 | Color burst phase detection system for use in a video disk player system A system for detecting an inversion of burst phase of a video signal, includes a reference color subcarrier signal generator for generating a reference color subcarrier signal whose frequency is equal to the frequency of the color burst signal of the vide... | 03/29/1988 |
