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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| 7814138 | Method and apparatus for decimal number addition using hardware for binary number operations According to embodiments of the subject matter disclosed in this application, decimal floating-point additions and/or decimal fixed-point additions may be implemented using existing hardware for binary number operations. The implementation can be carried out in soft... | 10/12/2010 |
| 6832315 | Method of labelling an article A method of labelling an article, including a) choosing a first character string comprising an identification number chosen to represent an article or a given class of articles, the character string comprising two or more characters, b) expressing each character in ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 5754810 | Specialized millicode instruction for certain decimal operations A millicode method for packing the hexadecimal digits from a plurality of bytes in each of two millicode registers (R1,R1) into one of the two millicode registers extracts the rightmost hexadecimal digit from each of a plurality of bytes stored in millico... | 05/19/1998 |
| 4866656 | High-speed binary and decimal arithmetic logic unit A combined binary and binary coded decimal (BCD) arithmetic logic unit (binary/BCD ALU) having a binary adder adapted to perform decimal operations on BCD data without impacting the performance of binary operations. The combined binary/BCD ALU has a look-... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4276596 | Short operand alignment and merge operation In a microprogrammed data processing system, the throughput of the system is increased during the processing of decimal numeric instructions by apparatus which, in response to a microword indicating that the result of the decimal numeric calculation is a ... | 06/30/1981 |
