Amaya Toman The gaming industry is part of the world of technology, along with game consoles. In today's part of our regular return to the past, we remember one of them, namely the GameBoy Advance SP, which was introduced in 2003. We also remember one important person in the field of computer technology - the scientist and programmer Jean Sammet.
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Game Boy Advance SP (2003)
On March 23, 2003, the Game Boy Advance SP game console was introduced in the United States. These were representatives of the sixth generation of handheld consoles from the workshop of the Japanese company Nintendo. The letters "SP" in the name of this console served as an abbreviation for "Special". The Game Boy Advance SP was the penultimate console that was part of the Game Boy Advance product line.
The handheld game console Game Boy Advance was equipped with a 2,9-inch Reflective TFT Color LCD display, the standard was available in the colors Onyx, Flame, Platinum Silver, Cobalt Blue, Pearl Pink, Pearl Blue, Graphite, Midnight Blue, Charizard Fire Red , Torchic Orange, Venusaur Leaf Green, NES classic design, and Pikachu Yellow. Various limited editions were available in selected regions.
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Jean Sammet was born (1928)
On March 23, 1928, Jean Sammet, one of the first significant pioneers of computer technology and computer science, was born in New York. Jean Sammet studied at Mount Holyoke College High School, after graduation she entered the University of Illinois, where she eventually began a teaching career. At the beginning of the 20s, she worked at IBM on the development of the FORMAC programming language - it was the first commonly used language for working with algebraic expressions, and she was also the author of the well-known publication Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals. Jean Sammet died on May 2017, XNUMX.
