The Time Line
1970 - Apollo 13 - Mission suffers a huge setback. A ruptured air tank on their way to the moon almost sealed the fate of three astronauts on board the spacecraft.
1970 - Floppy disc was invented
1971 - The microprocessor is introduced The foundation of all computers, or just about anything electric by Intel
1972 - Pong, a computer video game from Atari
1973 - Color photocopier
1974 - The pocket calculator
1975 - The Altair, the first home computer is introduced No screen, no printer, not a single luxury. A kit computer you had to assemble parts for yourself based on the Z-80 microprocessors.
1975 - Computerized Supermarket checkouts begin to appear
1976 - Apple Computer Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
1976 - First Cray supercomputer
1976 - Call waiting; ink-jet printers; Betaman and VHS systems for video cassette recording
1977 - The Apple II computer; magnetic resonaco imaging (MRI)
1978 - Ultrasound first used
1979 - IBM's 64k-bit silicon memory chip; the Sony Walkman
The Write-Up
Technology was having an outbreak in the 1970's. The first home computer was invented in 1975 by Altair, which you had to build yourself. Soon enough, improvements on the computer were being made. The microprocessor, the foundation of all computers, was invented in 1971 by Intel and a year before that, the floppy disk was invented. Apple Computer Inc was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, the bicentennial year of the Declaration of Independence.
In the same year that Apple Computer Inc. was created, so was the first Cray supercomputer. A year later, the Apple Computer II was made. In 1979, the 64k-bit silicon memory chip was invented by ICM. Computerized supermarket checkouts were also invented during this decade, in '75.
Computers-related inventions weren't the only ones made during the 1970's. The pocket calculator made its appearance in 1974 while a year before the color photocopier has already been shown in 1973. Ink-jet printers came along in 1976 along with call waiting and Betaman and VHS systems for video cassette recording.
In the same year that the Apple II computer made its debut, so did magnetic resonaco imaging (MRI). One year later, the ultrasound was first used. The Sony Walkman made its introduction in 1979.