Computer-related introductions in 1972

first commercial home video game console

programming paradigm based on formal logic

byte-oriented microprocessor

enterprise software

B-tree in which each node contains only keys (not key–value pairs), and to which an additional level is added at the bottom with linked leaves

The HP-35 was Hewlett-Packard's first pocket calculator and the world's first scientific pocket calculator: a calculator with trigonometric and exponential functions. It was introduced in 1972.

synthetic benchmark for evaluating the performance of computers

magnetic tape data storage format

family programmable calculators and desktop computers