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1970 to 1979
This page highlights ICT industry developments from 1970
to 1979.
It covers -
Context
is provided by the broader media and communications timeline
elsewhere on this site.
1970
- Busicom
141-PF printing desktop calculator
- Canon
and Texas Instruuments Pocketronic programmable
calculator
1971
- Bowmar
901B calculator - first true pocket calculator
with LED display
1972
- Commodore
Minuteman 1 pocket calculator
- Hewlett
Packard HP-35 scientific calculator
- Bushnell's
Pong
- •
Wang Laboratories 2200 series small business computers
- Ida
Hoos' Systems Analysis in Public Policy: A Critique
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Automatic Electronic Systems AES 90 programmable word
processor
1973
- Texas
Instruments SR-50 'slide rule calculator'
- prototype
Alto workstation computer at Xerox
- Metcalfe
invents Ethernet
- Texas
Instruments SR-50 Slide Rule Calculator
- BM
3340 'Winchester' hard disk
- Shugart
Associates SA901 disk drive
1974
- Creative
Computing, first magazine for home computer users
1975
- Aristo,
Denner & Pape ceases slide rule manufacture
- Atari's
Home Pong
1976
- Columbia
Data Products founded
- Fairchild
Camera & Instrument launches Channel F
game system
1977
- launch
of Apple II
- launch
of Commodore PET
- launch
of Tandy TRS-80
1978
- Rubinstein
founds MicroPro and launches WordMaster
1979
- commercial
launch of VisiCalc
- EMC
founded
- MicrPro
launches WordStar
- Milton
Bradley Microvision game device
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