Mycobacteria are a type of germ. There are many different kinds. The most common one causes tuberculosis. Another one causes leprosy. Still others cause infections that are called atypical mycobacterial infections.
Released with much fanfare in January of 1984, the Macintosh was the first affordable computer to include a Graphical User Interface. It was built around the new Motorola 68000 chip, which was significantly faster than previous processors, running at 8 MHz.
I would also give credit to Paul Wellner's 1991 Paper on the Digitall Desk some credit for what we see today in software. So the iPad is a mashup of these technologies with of course a nod to the PDA and of course Newton. I'd argue it was invented by John Sculley and his team in 1993 at Apple. At that time it was called the Newton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New...