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  1. Re:Innovation by Monx · · Score: 1 · on Macintosh's 1984 Debut

    Media Center PC? Try Macintosh TV

    Tablet PC? I have a Fujitsu Sytlistic 1200 tablet PC from 1997.

    PocketPC? The Newton did more in 1993 than most PDAs of today. If development had continued...

    XBox? Ok it's a game console -- like an Atari. Oh. It's a computer-based console? Try the Pippen (from '95).

    Media Player 9? What's so special about it? QuickTime was revolutionary in 1991.

    If anything MS is painfully aware that they need to divest themselves of a PC-only mentality and are inovating in a wide number of areas at an alarming rate to ensure that they don't end up with all of their eggs in one basket.

    Have you heard of the Digital Hub?

    Were you intentionally listing things that were innovative only by Microsoft's definition of the term?

  2. 1450XLD Not TOTALLY vapor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Nominations for 2003 Vaporware Awards

    It sort of existed. One anyway.

  3. apologies in advance... by Hadlock · · Score: 2, Funny · on Infogrames Officially Changes Name To Atari

    Atari was briefly in the engineering/scientific/graphics workstation business!

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of Transputers!

  4. The Incarnations of Atari by fm6 · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Infogrames Officially Changes Name To Atari
    • Founded by Nolan Bushnell (1972).
    • Sold to Warner Communications (predecessor of AOL-Time-Warner) 1975.
    • Warner splits Atari into Home and Arcade divisions. Jack Trammiel, founder (forcibly retired) of Commodore buys Home division, forms Atari Computer Corp. (1984)
    • Arcade division gets renamed Atari Games, then Atari/Tengen, then Time Warner Interactive, then gets sold to Williams/WMS, which sells it to Midway, which renames it Midway Games West! (Dates and veracity dubious!)
    • Atari Computer Corp merges with disk drive maker JTS (1996)
    • JTS/Atari sells its "Atari assets" to Hasbro Interactive (1998).
    • Hasbro Interactive absorbed by Infogrammes Entertainment SA as part of malicious French conspiracy. Renamed Infogrammes Interactive. (2001)
    • Infogrammes Entertainment renames its North American acquistions "Atari". (2003)
    • Chuck E Cheese buys Infogrammes Entertainment SA, renames it "Freedom Software" (2004).
    In researching this timeline, I made a truely mind-boggling discovery: Atari was briefly in the engineering/scientific/graphics workstation business!