It ran on an Apple II computer, and is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of the personal computer industry. While a student at Harvard Business School, Bricklin developed VisiCalc in 1979, making it the first electronic spreadsheet. That got him promoted to manage the BIOS and diagnostics for the IBM PC XT.ĭaniel Singer “Dan” Bricklin. Often referred to as “The Father of the Spreadsheet”. In 1980 Bradley was one of twelve engineers developing the first IBM Personal Computer.
He is credited by some for inventing the “Control-Alt-Delete” key combination that was used to reboot the computer. In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology for inventing the home console for video games and spawning the video game industry.ĭave Bradley. Was one of the twelve engineers who worked on the original IBM PC, developing the computer ROM BIOS code. Ralph H Baer. Is a video game pioneer, inventor, engineer, known as “The Father of Video Games”, who is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry. He was instrumental in rebuilding the North American video game industry (after the crash of 1983) with the Nintendo Entertainment System. After a disastrous experience with the Radar Scope arcade game, he rebounded by converting the poorly received Radar Scope to the phenomenally successful Donkey Kong. Hiroshi invited him to establish Nintendo of America, an offer which he accepted. Minoru Arakawa. Born in Kyoto, Japan, he married the daughter of Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, Yoko Yamauchi. In addition to direct involvement with all the breakout Atari products, such as the Atari 2600, Alcorn was involved at some of the historic meetings of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs (at that time an Atari employee) presenting their Apple I prototype.
Alcorn was the designer of the video arcade game Pong, creating it under the direction of Bushnell and Dabney. These people, each one in his own way, have been protagonists and witnesses of the digital revolution that was taking place and some of them were directly responsible for bringing computer power to the mass consciusness.Īllan “Al” Alcorn. Is a pioneering engineer and computer scientist. During the production stage of 8 Bit Generation we met really a lot of people of whom we shot interviews and various footage.
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