You are being provided with a book chapter by chapter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chapter. After reading the chapter, 1. shorten the chapter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any important nouns in the chapter. 3. Do not translate the original language. 4. Keep the same style as the original chapter, keep it consistent throughout the chapter. Your reply must comply with all four requirements, or it’s invalid.
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GAMES, GEEKS, AND GADGETS
 
       The first pocket calculators hit the market in Japan in 1970. The first
American-made pocket-sized calculator was the Bowmar 901B. It
sold for $240 a unit!
 
            Before streaming there were DVDs, and before DVDs, there were
video cassette recorder (VCR) tapes. But VCRs were challenged by
Sony Betamax recorders and tapes until the former won the market
share by the mid-1980s.
 
       Microsoft founder Bill Gates scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT. It
got him into Harvard, but he dropped out after two years to do “other
things.”
 
            The predecessors to modern pinball machines can be traced back to
the 1600s. The first coin-operated pinball machines began being
placed in American bars and drugstores in the 1930s.
 
            The 1980 arcade game, Pac-Man, originally came out in Japan as
Puck Man. The name was changed when it was realized how vandals
could have fun with the work “Puck.”
 
            The earliest version of the internet was the Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network  (ARPANET). It was started in 1969 as a
special project of the Advanced Research Projects Agency
Network (ARPA) of the US Defense Department.
 
       Starcade was a gameshow that was broadcast on the TBS network in
the US from 1982 to 1983. It featured contestants, usually teenagers,
playing current arcade games against each other for prizes.
 
            The video game Spacewar! Was developed in 1962 by programmer
Steve Russell. It’s important because it was the first video game
available for home computers.
 
       If you’re familiar with the video game Minecraft then you know, for
many, it’s much more than a game. That’s probably why Minecraft is
the top-selling game of all time, with more than 238 million units
sold.
 
       Most of the world’s computer-integrated circuit (IC) chips are made
in semiconductor fabrication plants owned by Taiwan based
companies. Taiwan companies accounted for more than 60% of the
market share in 2020.
 
       Python was the most widely used computer language in 2021. It was
first developed in 1991 by a Dutch programmer, Guido van Rossum.
 
       Lenovo was the top-selling computer brand in 2020, with 87 million
units sold and 19% of the market share. Apple was second with 81.4
million units sold and 18% of the market.
 
            The abacus was the world’s first calculator. Variations of the device
were used as far back as the 3rd millennium BCE in Mesopotamia.
 
            A multiple arcade machine emulator (MAME) is software that
emulates vintage arcade games. The software is legal in most
countries and is also open source.
 
            A “killer app” is computer software that’s deemed so cool or
essential that people buy specific hardware just to run the application.
The spreadsheet program VisiCalc for the Apple II is considered the
first computer killer app.
 
       In 2000, the Windows Mobile phone was the first true smartphone to
hit the market. The platform was declared “end of life” on January 14,
2020.
 
       A “binary digit,” or bit, is the basic unit of information in computing.
A “byte” is a unit that generally consists of 8 bits.