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of switches"-type microcomputers, the MITS Altair 8800 (1975) was arguably the most famous. Most of these simple, early microcomputers were sold as electronic...

years after the first microcomputers for mainstream consumers appeared, the Ontario Ministry of Education sensed that microcomputers could be an important...

The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a family of microcomputers developed and manufactured by Acorn Computers in the early 1980s as part of...

featured Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems's (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer, which inspired Allen to suggest that they could program a BASIC interpreter...

affordable consumer goods. Early personal computers – generally called microcomputers – were sold often in electronic kit form and in limited numbers, and...

"personal computer". Subsequently, Intel would create one of the first microcomputers in 1973. Intel opened its first international manufacturing facility...

Microcomputer Associates, Inc., was an American computer company founded by Manny Lemas and Ray Holt. It produced the low-cost Jolt Microcomputer, designed...

This is a list of early microcomputers sold to hobbyists and developers. These microcomputers were often sold as "DIY" kits or pre-built machines in relatively...

later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital...

transistorized computers List of early third-generation computers List of early microcomputers List of computers with on-board BASIC List of computers running CP/M...

3D Microcomputers Wholesale and Distribution, Inc., often referred to as 3D Microcomputers or 3D Micro, was a computer company based in Markham, Ontario...

Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable...

InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business that began as a monthly magazine in 1978, but transitioned to a Web publication in...

early publisher of computer games in 1980 with its video game division Microcomputer Games, adapting some of its boardgame titles to various computer platforms...

Kyoto University (京都大学, Kyōto daigaku), or KyotoU (京大, Kyōdai), is a national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former...

for the Altair 8800 microcomputers, despite the latter being much more popular. He attributes this to the more popular microcomputers having hobbyist clubs...

PL/M, an acronym for Programming Language for Microcomputers, is a high-level language conceived and developed by Gary Kildall in 1973 for Hank Smith at...

line of BASIC interpreters and compiler(s) adapted for many different microcomputers. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first version...

In the United States, the clones were marketed under EACA's Personal Microcomputers Inc. (PMC) subsidiary as the PMC-80. Tandy Corporation sued PMC (and...

Apple II, became one of the first successful mass-produced personal microcomputers. Apple introduced the Lisa in 1983 and the Macintosh in 1984, popularizing...

applications for microcomputers such as the Apple II, and eventually became the first developer and publisher of computer games for microcomputers in Canada...

operating system developed by GST Computer Systems for the Sinclair QL microcomputer. It was commissioned by Sinclair Research in February 1983. However...

computers (initially called microcomputers) from around 1980. For around five years, the CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers) was the most popular operating...

Hector (or Victor Lambda) are a series of a microcomputers produced in France in the early 1980s. In January 1980, Michel Henric-Coll founded a company...

model 5324) was an 8-bit microcomputer developed by IBM. Like the 6850 Displaywriter, it was one of the first IBM microcomputers, preceding the IBM Personal...

test equipment, it also had some success as a peripheral bus for early microcomputers, notably the Commodore PET. Newer standards have largely replaced IEEE...

programmer, author, and television personality known for his work with early microcomputers. He is particularly noted for associations with Commodore Business Machines...

2016". "ICGA - WCSC 2022". "Talkchess - WCCC 2023?". "ICGA - World Microcomputer Chess Championship 1980 - 2001". Archived from the original on June...

fit into the microcomputers of the day, making it the de facto standard programming language on early microcomputers. The first microcomputer version of...

obscure computer sizes. There are different sizes like minicomputers, microcomputers, mainframe computers and super computers. These are mainly used for...

middle range of the computing spectrum, between mainframe computers and microcomputers. The easily-misunderstood term "minicomputer" is less often applied...

deprecated archival service (link) Nadeau, Michael (2002). Collectible Microcomputers. Schiffer Book for Collectors (Illustrated ed.). Schiffer Publishing...

complete range of applications from small to large. IBM entered the microcomputer market in 1981 with the IBM Personal Computer; its architecture remains...

reference manual crammed with precise, detailed comparisons of most microcomputers" although they also think that "[t]he chapters which precede the actual...

Other producers also made microprocessors which were widely used in microcomputers. The following table shows a timeline of significant microprocessor...

Elk Cloner is one of the first known microcomputer viruses that spread "in the wild", i.e., outside the computer system or laboratory in which it was...

the ESER mainframe computers, various computer peripherals as well as microcomputers, radios, television sets and other items including cookie press Kleingebäckpresse...

implemented for a wide variety of mainframe computers, minicomputers, and microcomputers, including the IBM PC, as its popularity increased significantly. In...

Christie G.; Crouch, Stanley R. (1994). Making the Right Connections: Microcomputers and Electronic Instrumentation. American Chemical Society. p. 389....

CPUs are generally larger than 8-bit, usually 16-bit. 8-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 8-bit microprocessors. The term '8-bit' is also applied...

registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. 16-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 16-bit microprocessors. A 16-bit register can store...

pp. 37–40. Weisbecker, Joseph (March 1977). "Build the COSMAC 'Elf' Microcomputer (Part 3)". Popular Electronics. Vol. 11, no. 3. Ziff Davis. pp. 63–67...

Intellec microcomputer development system as a system for developing other OEM microcomputers. Intel system development kit List of early microcomputers ISIS...

recording live rhythm strips on hospital cardiac monitors. Many popular microcomputer systems from the late 1970s and early 1980s had first-party and aftermarket...

The Microcomputer Club Nederland (MCN) was a Dutch computer club which was founded by Vendex in the mid-1980s. The club was centered on the computer departments...

like teaching an elephant to tap dance." IBM had previously produced microcomputers, such as 1975's IBM 5100, but targeted them towards businesses; the...

Micral is a series of microcomputers produced by the French company Réalisation d'Études Électroniques (R2E), beginning with the Micral N in early 1973...

Daniel Alroy. Its main focus was the manufacturing and sale of early microcomputers, beginning in 1972. The first generation Q1/T computer was first sold...

sale of the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which...

changed to just Commodore in 1981, Commodore Microcomputer in 1983, and finally to Commodore Microcomputers in 1984 and for the rest of its run. The two...

1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company...

initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800, which were 8-bit microcomputers made in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 was designed to use less memory than other...

Kildall, who had created CP/M, the first disk operating system for microcomputers which was not married to proprietary hardware. Computer program source...

1930 – 30 November 2018). At the time, SCP built memory boards for microcomputers, but after attending a local seminar on Intel's just-released 8086 in...

1982 for the CP/M and IBM PC platforms as a desktop app running on microcomputers with internal graphics controllers. Versions were later released for...

the instruction set for the ARM architecture. Wilson first designed a microcomputer during a break from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She subsequently...

Intel 8008 microprocessor, the RGS-008 was among the first wave of microcomputers released to the public in the early-to-mid-1970s. It holds the distinction...

microcomputers. It proved extremely popular, prompting Childress to lead a team in designing the company's first full general-purpose microcomputer....

Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Sanyo will launch three new microcomputers in the UK in January 1983. [..] PHC-25 is the most advanced. It will...

British composer best known for his musical and programming work for microcomputers of the 1980s, in particular the Commodore 64. Hubbard was born in 1955...

solution for a couple of years. As MECC's Cyber 73 entered into service, microcomputers began to appear. In 1978 it appeared that features wished for in the...

Acorn System 1, initially called the Acorn Microcomputer (Micro-Computer), was an early 8-bit microcomputer for hobbyists, based on the MOS 6502 CPU, and...

In computer networking, a rich client (also called a heavy, fat or thick client) is a computer (a "client" in client–server network architecture) that...

United States. The company released their Mike family of modular kit microcomputers starting in 1975. These computers, spanning several models based on...

combining multiple words together to create one, such as "Microsoft" ("microcomputer" and "software"), "Comcast" ("communications" and "broadcast"), "Evernote"...

internal data registers, but an 8-bit external data bus characteristic of microcomputers. The QL was conceived in 1981 under the code name ZX83, as a portable...

programmable microcomputers that fit entirely on top of a desk, including a keyboard, a small one-line display, and printer. The Wang 2200 microcomputer of 1973...

store initially vended hardware, books, magazines, and software for microcomputers. Within its first month, the Byte Shop generated sales of US$7,000 (equivalent...

company based in the UK, creators of a range of programming tools for microcomputers in 1980s and 1990s. Their first products were Pascal and assembler implementations...

networks. ARCNET was the first widely available networking system for microcomputers and it became popular in the 1980s for office automation tasks. It was...

"Interest course 'Introduction to Microcomputers' (趣味講座「マイコン入門」)" using the PC-8001. Its textbook "Introduction to Microcomputers - the first half of Showa 57...

ReadySoft 1994 Action Commercial 7.5 Dragon's Lair (2002) Advanced Microcomputer Systems 2002 Action Commercial 10.1 Dream Chamber DarkWave Games 2013...

Lemas of Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated, later known as Synertek Systems where he designed the Jolt, Super Jolt and SYM-1 microcomputer cards as...

most IBM PC compatible computers Piezoelectric speaker, used in early microcomputers "Beeper" (song), the debut single by The Count and Sinden The Beepers...

1981. p. 10 – via Google Books. Nadeau, Michael (2002). Collectible Microcomputers. Schiffer Book for Collectors (Illustrated ed.). Schiffer Publishing...

was a video game company founded by Rick Dyer originally as Advanced Microcomputer Systems, and was well known for its Laserdisc video games, beginning...

Sistema 700 was a personal professional microcomputer, introduced by the Brazilian computer company Prológica in 1981. The machine was based on the Intertec...

MikroMikko was a Finnish line of microcomputers released by Nokia Corporation's computer division Nokia Data from 1981 through 1987. MikroMikko was Nokia...

Machines 380Z (often called the RML 380Z or RM 380Z) was an early 8-bit microcomputer produced by Research Machines in Oxford, England, from 1977 to 1985...

Donald E. Lancaster was an American author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer. Don graduated from North Allegheny High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania...

computers are given below. Microcomputers became the most common type of computer in the late 20th century. The term "microcomputer" was introduced with the...

The EDUC-8, pronounced "educate", is an early microcomputer kit published by Electronics Australia in a series of articles starting in August 1974 and...

not legally allowed to modify it. Onyx Systems began selling early microcomputer-based Unix workstations in 1980. Later, Sun Microsystems, founded as...

that the silicon-based integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and the microcomputer, among other technologies, were developed. As of 2021[update], Santa...

Bull, Honeywell and Nippon Electric) because they needed a US maker of microcomputers to comply with government purchase requirements. Kit sales were ended...

Micro 16. Later Digico started manufacturing a networked CP/M based microcomputer system with business software options, named Digico Prince. Digico was...

addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation for systems like microcomputers or to make operating systems like Linux or Windows, and even later came...

Silicon Disk System was the first commercially available RAM disk for microcomputers. It was written by Jerry Karlin in 1979/80. Karlin was joined by Peter...

The SPC-1000 is the first Z80-based personal computer produced by Samsung. It was developed in South Korea, with built-in HuBASIC BASIC written by Hudson...

The MYCRO-1 was a microcomputer manufactured and sold by Mycron of Oslo, Norway, in 1974. Built around the Intel 8080 CPU, it was one of the first commercial...

was contracted by Apple Computer to produce the keyboards of their microcomputers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The company also produced a number...

name is a reference to Cheetah Marketing, a British manufacturer of microcomputer peripherals and electronic musical instruments in the 1980s (such as...

microcomputers was very high and published several books; the publishing business was sold in 1982. Mark-8 MCM/70 Micral List of early microcomputers...

pioneering microcomputer first built in 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and released the next year. This makes it one of the first microcomputers in the...

the 6 μm process allowed the making of desktop computers, known as microcomputers. Moore's Law in the next 40 years brought features 1/100 the size, or...

was beginning to take over the market after its introduction on early microcomputers in 1975, and especially after the introduction of the 1977 "trinity"...

Traf-O-Data.[citation needed] In that year, Gilbert built the working microcomputer. Miles Gilbert, Paul Gilbert's brother, a graphic designer and draftsman...

1980s. Some of the instalments were also released on other popular home microcomputers, namely the Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and MSX. The series...

(the world's first RAM disk for microcomputers) released 1982 – Microcache (the world's first disk cache for microcomputers) released 1989 – CopyControl...

The Acorn System was a series of modular microcomputer systems based on rack-mounted Eurocards developed by Acorn Computers from 1979 to 1982, aimed primarily...

March 1979. Some time after 1982 it bought out rival computing magazine Microcomputer Printout (formerly Printout) and the two magazines merged into one....

Personal/Microcomputer Survey. Data Decisions. 1984. p. 50 – via the Internet Archive. Nadeau, Michael (2002). Collectible Microcomputers. Schiffer Book...

replacement, errata, and addenda.[citation needed] Popular manuals about microcomputers were advertised as being for sale in loose-leaf binders with regular...

ISBN 1568843488 – via the Internet Archive. Nadeau, Michael (2002). Collectible Microcomputers. Schiffer Book for Collectors (Illustrated ed.). Schiffer Publishing...

Z80 was one of the most popular 8-bit processors for general purpose microcomputers and other applications from the late 1970s well into the 1980s, and...

the early 1980s. It combined an updated version of the Heathkit H8 microcomputer and H19 terminal in a new case that has room for a built-in floppy disk...

Systems Command to select a microcomputer for the Theater Air Control System (TACS). From a field of 149 microcomputers the Final Technical Report concluded...

December 1986. The club had an influential role in the development of the microcomputer revolution and the rise of that aspect of the Silicon Valley information...

A single-board computer (SBC) is a complete computer built on a single circuit board, with microprocessor(s), memory, input/output (I/O) and other features...

language, the first compiler and the first mainstream operating system for microcomputers. Dorothy McEwen was born on 3 March 1943 in Seattle, Washington, USA...

Micro delved somewhat deeper into the technicalities and uses that microcomputers could be put to, once again mainly using the BBC Micro in the studio...

In North America, the Video Genie System was sold as the Personal Microcomputers, Inc PMC-80 and the Genie II as the PMC-81. In South Africa, the Video...

In re Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. Patent Litig., 982 F.2d 1527 (Fed. Cir. 1992) was a case decided in 1992 by the United States Court of Appeals...

process of converting CP/M software products from 8080- to 8086-based microcomputers. XLT86 can be used to translate any assembly language programs that...

dBASE, arguably one of the most influential DBMS programs for early microcomputers. In the late 1960s, Fred Thompson at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)...

Product Focus: End-User: Intel OverDrive Processors upgrades PC power", Microcomputer Solutions July/August 1992, page 16 "DOS Days – CPUs". dosdays.co.uk...

to 1990. The company delivered one of the first multi-user-capable microcomputers, the Discovery 1600, in 1978. Action Computer Enterprise was co-founded...

of CP/M, which would later become the dominant operating system for microcomputers for a time. Together with his invention of the BIOS (Basic Input Output...

of the early microcomputer industry in the United States. Morrow promoted and improved the S-100 bus used in many early microcomputers. Called "one of...

for controlling access to the computer room were devised. During the microcomputer industry boom of the 1980s, computers started to be deployed everywhere...

Google Books. Cleaveland, Peter (April 21, 1987). "Low-cost, flexible microcomputers get jobs in factories". Instrumentation & Control Systems. 61 (5). Reed...

8080-based microcomputers. He was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club and made significant contributions to the software for early microcomputer systems...

Chemical", Microcomputer Solutions, September/October 1992, page 1 Intel Corporation, "NewsBits: Oregon Facility Wins Environmental Award", Microcomputer Solutions...

hex digit LED display. The keyboard-display board connected to the microcomputer module by a 50-conductor ribbon cable. There was also a parallel bus...

Microdata Corporation was an American minicomputer company which created the Reality product line featuring the Pick operating system. In its history,...

The Toshiba Pasopia IQ are a series of MSX compatible machines released by Toshiba between 1983 and 1985. The HX-10 was released in the fall of 1983. There...

person to interact with the collection of mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers and peripherals the museum had on display. Various and changing exhibits...

this is common due to the historic relevance of domestically produced microcomputers. Other terms used include digital game, for example, by the Australian...

A computer-on-module (COM) is a type of single-board computer (SBC), a subtype of an embedded computer system. An extension of the concept of system on...

the Bit-INN Tokyo, on the 7th floor to market the pioneering TK-80 microcomputer kit. The TK-80 rapidly exceeded sales expectations, and the Bit-INN...

Control Program/Monitor, or CP/M, the first disk operating system for microcomputers. In 1974 he incorporated as Intergalactic Digital Research, with his...

a batch file). With the introduction of Digital Research's CP/M (a microcomputer operating system modeled after TOPS-10 for the PDP-10), the type of...

move is a shell command for renaming and moving files and directories. The command is in various shells including COMMAND.COM, Command Prompt, 4DOS/4NT...

pushd and popd are shell commands that together allow the user to revert to a previous working directory via the command line. They use a stack data structure...

of the world economy, as the development of optical networking and microcomputers greatly changed many businesses and industries. Nicholas Negroponte...

The Telmac TMC-600 is a Finnish microcomputer introduced in 1982 by Telercas Oy, a Finnish importer of RCA microchips. Only 600 units were produced, making...

inadequate provision for instructor training, and the lack of resources. The microcomputer revolution in the late 1970s and early 1980s helped to revive CAI development...

The West PC-800 was a home computer introduced by Norwegian company West Computer AS in 1984. The computer was designed as an alarm center allowing use...

In computing, del (or erase) is a command in command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS, NDOS, 4OS2, 4NT and Windows PowerShell...

56001 digital signal processor, which distinguishes it from most other microcomputers of the era. It includes a new VIDEL programmable graphics system which...

Mycron was a pioneer manufacturer of microcomputers, located in Oslo, Norway. Originally named Norsk Data Industri, the company was founded in 1975 by...

built for Nintendo by Silicon Graphics, Intelligent Systems, Kyoto Microcomputer Co.,Ltd. and SN Systems an unlicensed SharkWire Online service, and...

computer IBM ES/9000, a mainframe computer IBM System 9000, a family of microcomputers HP 9000, a family of workstation and server computers VAX 9000, a mainframe...

The Mark-8 is a microcomputer design from 1974, based on the Intel 8008 CPU (which was the world's first 8-bit microprocessor). The Mark-8 was designed...

In computing, help is a command in various command line shells such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, Bash, qshell, 4DOS/4NT, Windows PowerShell, Singularity shell...

The software included is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. The microcomputer is sold as assembling kit, that includes: A PCB. 7400 series TTL chips...

interface controller compatible with that of Radio Shack's TRS-80 line of microcomputers. The Expander runs off a Zilog Z80A microprocessor clocked at 3.58 MHz...

details such as a weather vane and a windmill on the barns. Commodore Microcomputers stated that "Dream House is not exactly a game ... but it is just as...

back with him to Baku, making it perhaps one of the first Western-made microcomputers to reach the Soviet Union at that time. Computer chess magazine editor...

Processing Unit Instruction Manual (PDF) One of the most influential microcomputers of all, the IBM PC, used the Intel 8088, a version of the 8086 with...

TMS 1000 Series MOS/LSI One-Chip Microcomputers (PDF). — (1975). TMS 1000 Series MOS/LSI One-Chip Microcomputers: Programmer's Reference Manual (PDF)...

branches for end-of-day updates. None of these systems were available for microcomputers, and Hayes' initial concept was to offer similar products into this...

was held in conjunction with the World Microcomputer Chess Championship (WMCCC) and restricted to microcomputers. In 2020 and 2021 there were no events...

The Panasonic FS-A1WSX released in 1989 was the last MSX2+ made by Panasonic. It was the successor of FS-A1WX and incorporated few changes like S-Video...

his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Allen was ranked as one of the richest...

Mind Thrust Developer Hayden Microcomputers Publisher Tandy Corporation Platform TRS-80 Release 1981 Genre Board game...

developed by Guangzhou Embedsky Computer Tech Company. It features a 32-bit microcomputer processor, as well as many peripheral interfaces similar to personal...

Lair is an interactive film LaserDisc video game developed by Advanced Microcomputer Systems and published by Cinematronics in 1983, as the first game in...

Fiedler, Ryan (October 1983). "The Unix Tutorial / Part 3: Unix in the Microcomputer Marketplace". BYTE. p. 132. Retrieved 30 January 2015. Bob Zeidman (August...

mainframes CP/M computers based on the S-100 bus, maybe the earliest microcomputer platform Video game consoles, any variety (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo)...

The SYM-1 is a single board "trainer" computer produced by Synertek Systems in 1975. It was designed by Ray Holt.[citation needed] Originally called the...

Hayes (born 1950) is the inventor of PC modem and founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products, a manufacturer of modems mostly known for introducing the...

instances; which are a type of zombie. SCP-079, a malevolent Exidy Sorcerer microcomputer, which has gained access to the facility's systems. 079 can observe...

economy. In 1981 the company released the BC-12 and BC-12FD, all-in-one microcomputers like its predecessor the Microsystem based on the Z80A; they ran OASIS...

Micklaus for The Software Exchange for the TRS-80 Level II Model I microcomputer. The Mean Checkers Machine is a computer version of checkers with four...

Experience Horizon Air (IATA airline designator: QX) Epson QX-10 and QX-16, microcomputers QX/V32c, QX/4232 and QX/4232bis, a series of modems made by Microcom...

1980. In its early years, Psion became a leader in software for home microcomputers. In 1984, Psion invented 'The Organizer', the world's first volume hand-held...

a 1978 video game developed by Level IV for the TRS-80 16K Level II microcomputer. Space Battle is a Star Trek-style game, in which the player take the...

chip industry Produced the influential μPD7220, widely used in 1980s microcomputers NeoMagic United States 1993 Active Supplier of mobile SoCs with integrated...

Snyder a creative burst of energy; within the week he had purchased a microcomputer, taught himself to program, and transformed the three-dimensional Personk...

MP/M was a fairly advanced operating system for its era, at least on microcomputers. It included a priority-scheduled multitasking kernel (before such a...

microprocessor, the Panafacom L-16A (MN1610). NEC released the TK-80 microcomputer evaluation kit in 1976, and it became popular among computer enthusiasts...

The MK14 (Microcomputer Kit 14) was a computer kit sold by Science of Cambridge of the United Kingdom, first introduced in 1977 for £39.95. The price...

introduced, and in 1979, an electronic rice cooker equipped with a microcomputer that could also manage the soaking of rice after washing and the heat...

and SCELBI, 8008-based computer kits MCM/70 and Micral, pioneering microcomputers PL/M, the first programming language targeting a microprocessor, the...

the 5-megabyte ST-506, in 1980. They were a major supplier in the microcomputer market during the 1980s, especially after the introduction of the IBM...

tabulate census and survey data on DOS-based machines: the Integrated Microcomputer Processing System (IMPS), developed by the U.S. Census Bureau, and the...

numeric keypad. The Sphere 1 was among the earliest complete all-in-one microcomputers that could be plugged in, turned on, and was fully functional. Michael...

College. Kapoor then registered for a three-month summer course in microcomputers at Harvard Summer School in the United States. She later developed an...

innovation needed to meet public demand. The Soviets had almost no access to microcomputers, and the availability of cars and phones per capita was lower than in...

presented considerable problems. By the mid-1980s the rapid improvement in microcomputers, and especially the introduction of the graphical user interface and...

class of computer systems that fell in between mainframe computers and microcomputers.[failed verification] This class of machine emerged in the 1960s, with...

Corporation, Microcomputer Solutions, May/June 1992, page 2–5 Intel Corporation, "Coming Attractions: Clock-Doubling Technology", Microcomputer Solutions...

server to appear as multiple servers has been increasingly common on microcomputers since the release of VMware ESX Server in 2001. VMware later replaced...

Publishing, was in the foreground of technical-book publishing when microcomputers were first becoming available. It was still unclear who would be buying...

find is a shell command that searches for text in files and prints matching lines to standard output. The command is available in DOS, Digital Research...

Maximite Microcomputer is a Microchip PIC32 microcontroller-based microcomputer. This series of chips uses the MIPS 32-bit RISC MIPS architecture and was...

WordStar is a discontinued word processor application for microcomputers. It was published by MicroPro International and originally written for the CP/M-80...

The APF Microcomputer System is a second generation 8-bit cartridge-based home video game console released in October 1978 by APF Electronics Inc. with...

These characters were added to the Unicode standard in Version 13. Many microcomputers of the 1970s and 1980s had their own proprietary character sets, which...

Vector Graphic, Inc., was an early microcomputer company founded in 1976, the same year as Apple Computer, during the pre-IBM PC era, along with the NorthStar...

respectively and intended to be partially compatible with the Sinclair QL microcomputer. Later these were sold as a fully assembled computer in an AT desktop...

Osborne 1 "represented an advancement of the price/performance ratio for microcomputers". Adam Osborne agreed but emphasized the price, stating that its performance...

in 1977, known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers, while Jobs oversaw the development of its foam-molded plastic case...

transistors at 10 μm Addressable memory 16 KB Typical in early 8-bit microcomputers, dumb terminals, general calculators, bottling machines Developed in...

reinforced map reading and cognitive skills. Educational resources for Microcomputers stated that the game makes good use of the computer's ability to create...

of all doujin works altogether (as of 2015). Doujin soft began with microcomputers in Japan, and spread to platforms such as the MSX and X68000. Since...

microcomputers began coming into big companies through the front door and commodity computing was well established. During the 1980s, microcomputers began...

They also published a monthly series of articles for their "system 68" microcomputer based on the Motorola 6800 Microprocessor, most of them written by John...

Cornucopia, sometimes shortened to Micro C, was a 1980s magazine for microcomputer hobbyists and enthusiasts. It was published in Bend, Oregon by former...

business and industry. It was the best-selling expert-system software for microcomputers in the late 1980s. VP-Expert was created by Brian Sawyer and published...

electronic general-purpose digital computers from the ENIAC through desktop microcomputers. The pre-history of such machines is examined in the first episode ("Giant...

the founder of Pacific Bionic Systems (reformed in 1980 as Mendocino Microcomputers, with Scully continuing as president and chairman), he consulted with...

to pack English text into fewer bytes in adventure games for early microcomputers. However, disks, increases in computer memory, and general purpose compression...

commissioned by the BBC to tie in with the series, giving an introduction to microcomputers and general computing. Its content covers the basics of the history...

appointed multiple dealers in the UK and were advertising as Nascom Microcomputers, with the "nm" logo. In September 1979, PCW reported that Grovewood...

data lines, output data lines, and address lines. To reduce cost, most microcomputers have a bidirectional data bus, reusing the same wires for input and...

TIM-100 was a PTT teller microcomputer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia) in 1985, part of the TIM series of microcomputers. It first appeared in...

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sensor. It was also the first digital camera to be interfaced to a microcomputer. The digital sensor for the camera was a modified 1 kb dynamic RAM (DRAM)...

The Heathkit H11 Computer is an early kit-format personal computer introduced in 1978. It is essentially a Digital Equipment PDP-11 in a small-form-factor...

The 77-68 was designed by Tim Moore and was offered for sale by Bear Microcomputer Systems of Newbury, Berkshire, England from June 1977. It was among...

III's hardware flaws, called SOS "the finest operating system on any microcomputer ever". SOS is a single-tasking single-user operating system. It makes...

The SMC-70 is a microcomputer that was produced by Sony and released in September 1982. The system was initially released for general office use in the...

project, as he suffered a public humiliation when the Symphonic, a microcomputer he and his wife Donna created, failed to boot at COMDEX in 1981. Gordon...

producing a range of computer families spanning mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers, home computers, and IBM PC-compatible systems—a breadth of production...

game consoles and Netronics Elf microcomputers. The CDP1861 was also used in the Telmac 1800 and Oscom Nano microcomputers. The 1861 chip could display 64...

subsequently contacted the Heath Company, which made the Heathkit series of microcomputers, to have it market his software and, in response, was told that the...

programming language that was used on this machine and other early microcomputers, such as the Telmac 1800. The video games that were provided came as...

The M6800 Microcomputer System, later dubbed the Motorola 6800 family, M6800 family, or 68xx, was a series of 8-bit microprocessors from Motorola that...

"Commodore Announces Unix®-Compatible Business System". Commodore Microcomputers. Vol. 6, no. 37. Contemporary Marketing, Inc. p. 10. ISBN 0-88731-047-8...

CP/M-86 is a discontinued version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands are...

Informix, and eventually Microsoft to dominate mid-range systems and microcomputers. Around this time, Oracle fell behind Sybase. From 1990 to 1993, Sybase...

contributions to the microcomputer industry, and for his technical innovations. Dr. Melen was co-founder of Cromemco, one of the earliest microcomputer companies...

LYS-16 was an early microcomputer based on the IMP-16 making it one of the first 16-bit microcomputers. It was designed and made by members of the Lysator...

The Laser 50 aka Laser-One is an educational portable computer sold by Vtech that ran the BASIC programming language. It was released in 1984. The Laser...

Viatron Computer Systems Corporation, or simply Viatron was an American computer company headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and later Burlington...

burgeoning minicomputer market. Compilers were also available for many microcomputers as the field emerged in the late 1970s. It was widely used as a teaching...

Apple II (stylized as apple ][) is a series of microcomputers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1977 to 1993. The original Apple II model, which...

which paved the way for the company's success. Before Altair BASIC, microcomputers were sold as kits that needed to be programmed in machine code (for...

California, founded in 1976. The company was an early developer of microcomputers and one of the first—if not the first—to license the CP/M operating...

Elwro was a Polish company that manufactured mainframe and microcomputers from 1959 until 1989. Its plant was in Wrocław. Computer models included Odra...

The SVI-728 is the first home computer from Spectravideo that complied fully with the MSX home computer specification. It was introduced in 1984. The design...

attached to the motherboard as plug-in cards or via cables; in modern microcomputers, it is increasingly common to integrate some of these peripherals into...

In computing, sys is a command used in many operating system command-line shells and also in Microsoft BASIC. SYS is an external command of Seattle Computer...

The Spectravideo SVI-738 X'Press is an MSX1 compatible home computer manufactured by Spectravideo from 1985. Although compatible with the MSX 1.0 standard...

where it won the first computer chess tournament held strictly for microcomputers, with a score of 5–0. This success encouraged the authors to seek financial...

Compucolor is a series of color microcomputers introduced by Compucolor Corporation of Norcross, Georgia. It was the first color home computer system with...

real-time multi-user multi-tasking operating system for IBM PC-compatible microcomputers. An evolution of the older Concurrent CP/M-86, Concurrent DOS and Concurrent...

and visual similarity to the ZX Spectrum, the Ace differed from other microcomputers of the time in that its programming environment used Forth instead of...

multiply for cost or space reasons. This was the case for most early microcomputers based on processors like the MOS 6502 and Zilog Z80. Over the years...

Micro-Professor II (MPF-II) is an Apple II clone introduced in 1982 by Multitech (later renamed to Acer). It is Multitech second branded computer product...

entrepreneur. He is most notable for creating MicroChess, the first microcomputer game to be sold commercially. Peter Jennings was born in Bedford, England...

self-pickup from factory outlet. RFT KC 85 – A series of mostly compatible microcomputers made by VEB Mikroelektronik. RFT KC compact – The only pre-assembled...

Adventureland is a text adventure video game for microcomputers, released by Scott Adams in 1978. The game has no plot but simply involves searching for...

developed microcomputers. He created BOS (Business Operating System), a portable environment to run commercial software on the emerging microcomputers. In 1976...

('KC' meaning "Kleincomputer", or "small computer") were models of microcomputers (KC 85/2, KC 85/3 and KC 85/4) built in East Germany by VEB Mikroelektronik...

implementation for Windows platforms Small-C — early C compiler targeting microcomputers SubC – public domain compiler Sun C Compiler — Oracle/Sun Microsystems’...

The Elektor Junior Computer was a 6502-based microprocessor development board published in the 1980s in the Dutch, German and later French, Spanish, British...

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CP 300 was a personal microcomputer produced by Prológica, a computer company located in Brazil, and introduced in 1983. It was compatible in software...

MVME143 Board". m88k.com. Retrieved 2025-07-16. "MVME188A VMEmodule RISC Microcomputer User's Manual" (PDF). February 1992. "MVME2700 VME Processor Modules"...

software as of late 1985, based on sales and market-share data. Commodore Microcomputers stated that it "is intuitive and easy for kids of all ages to understand"...

3, 2005. In September 1992, IBM combined and spun off their various microcomputer manufacturing divisions into an autonomous wholly owned subsidiary known...

this list, minicomputers are considered mainframes, in contrast to microcomputers, which are not.) These are commercial interactive fiction games played...

Corporation, Microcomputer Solutions, September/October 1991, page 2 Intel Corporation, "Coming Attractions: Clock-Doubling Technology", Microcomputer Solutions...

"Coming Attractions: Intel's Museum Looks To The Past And The Future", Microcomputer Solutions, May/June 1992, page 6 "Press Kit: The Intel Museum at a Glance"...

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another: teleprinter + exchange  ⇒  telex American + Indian  ⇒  Amerind microcomputer + software   ⇒   Microsoft Some linguists do not regard beginning+beginning...

Monthly. No. 72. Ziff Davis. July 1995. p. 26. "Kyoto Microcomputer Co., Ltd" (PDF). Kyoto Microcomputer Co., Ltd. Archived (PDF) from the original on January...

Torode in Seattle, Washington. The company was reorganized into the microcomputer design and development company Digital Microsystems, Inc. (DMS), Oakland...

at the university in 1980, he began writing programs for the Nascom microcomputer, including a Pascal compiler which was initially marketed as the Blue...

Digital Interface Circuits, TIA/EIA-422-B, May 1994 Douglas A. Cassell, Microcomputers and Modern Control Engineering, Reston Publishing Company, 1983 ISBN 0835943658...

purchase 3,000 unspecified microcomputers for this operation. When a company purchases a very large number of microcomputers, according to Mah, it can...

The PV-7 is an MSX-compatible home computer released by Casio Computer on October 15, 1984. At the time the standard MSX computer price was over 50,000...

The Philips VG-8235 is a Philips MSX2 compatible home computer, released in 1986 in Europe. It was developed and manufactured by the NEC. The machine was...

Software Middle Kingdom 1984 Computerware Midway Campaign 1983 Avalon Hill Microcomputer Games Mind-Roll 1989 Jesse Taylor (tested by Erik Flom and Scott Duckett)...

of the BBC Computer Literacy Project, which foreshadowed the coming microcomputer revolution and its effect on the economy, industry, and society of the...

family of integrated circuits Felix HC, a series of Romanian personal microcomputers produced by ICE Felix Bucharest and which were ZX Spectrum clones Hemianthus...

refer to: Dennis Hayes (businessman) (born 1950), founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products Dennis Hayes (musician), American bass guitarist Dennis Hayes...

Year Game Developer Setting Platform Notes Ref. 1979 Galaxy Microcomputer Games Sci-fi APPII, ATR, TRS80, PET, C64, DOS, FM7, TI99 First name: Galactic...

Micronet 800, hosted by Prestel, provided news and information about microcomputers and offered a form of instant messaging and online shopping. Most Spectrum...

class of microcomputer that existed from 1977 to about 1995. During this time it made economic sense for manufacturers to make microcomputers aimed at...

the Challenger series of microcomputers and Superboard single-board computers. The company was the first to market microcomputers with hard disk drives in...

best known for helping Dennis C. Hayes in the development of Hayes Microcomputer Products, the company that pioneered the Hayes modem and the Hayes command...

developer of the multitasking multiuser operating system MP/M created for microcomputers in 1979 while working as one of the first employees of Digital Research...

Elektronika-85 (a clone of DEC Professional), and several Motorola 68020-based microcomputers. The development of DEMOS effectively ceased in 1991, when the second...

maintenance. The act does not cover products not purchased by consumers. A microcomputer, for example, is only covered if intended for personal use. The Act...

known to the general public in the 1980s due to the development of microcomputers and inexpensive dot-matrix consumer printers. Continuous form paper...

Standard 100B.01 is entitled Terms, Definitions, and Letter Symbols for Microcomputers, Microprocessors, and Memory Integrated Circuits. The purpose of the...

development of several web-based image annotation tools. The first microcomputer-based image database retrieval system was developed at MIT, in the 1990s...

and published by JMG Software International, released for the TRS-80 microcomputer system in October 1982. An updated and expanded version, Supreme Ruler...

Galaxy is a 1981 video game published by Avalon Hill and developed by Microcomputer Games for the Apple II, TRS-80, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore PET...

Fabien Neck, ed. (2011-11-20). "Software Overview: Matra-Hachette Alice Microcomputers". System.cfg: Le Wiki d'Alice (in French). System.cfg. Archived from...

fictional character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger 8000 Plus, a British microcomputer magazine 8000 series (disambiguation) and 8000 class All pages with...

assumption. Note that all Electrons, and later BBC microcomputers, have BASIC2: the earlier BBC microcomputers have BASIC1. If you are not sure which version...

simultaneous transition to a market dominated by microcomputers and LCD games. The switch towards microcomputers, and the more transient fad of LCD games, was...

A Basic interpreter was installed in the microcomputers manufactured in the late 1970s. As the microcomputer industry grew, so did the language. Basic...

SuperBASIC was subsequently included in the ROM firmware of the Sinclair QL microcomputer (announced in January 1984), also serving as the command line interpreter...

for Cromemco microcomputers, and a display from that program filled the cover of the June 1976 issue of Byte. The advent of microcomputer-based color graphics...

CP/M—the dominant disk operating system for 8-bit Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 microcomputers—in order to simplify porting CP/M applications to MS-DOS. When IBM introduced...

I/O. Samples later this month. Nadeau, Michael (2002). Collectible Microcomputers. Schiffer Book for Collectors (Illustrated ed.). Schiffer Publishing...

112. ISSN 0890-2143. Retrieved June 25, 2023. "Wacky Word Games". Microcomputers in Education. Vol. 5. Queue, Inc. 1984–1985. Retrieved June 25, 2023...

call from someone unloading used microcomputer systems for less than $1000 each. Feeling that sub-$1000 microcomputers was an untapped market, the two...

processor and neither controls nor displays the hardware directly. Early microcomputers such as the 1975 Altair 8800 also relied on front panels, but since...

the Heath Company and its Heathkit line of electronic kits and kit microcomputers, from Schlumberger in October 1979. ZDS originally operated from Heath's...

Yamaha CX5M is an MSX-system compatible computer introduced in 1984 by Yamaha Corporation that expands upon the normal features expected from these systems...

even into the 1980s. Many different companies attempted to create microcomputers similar to the home computers from the 1980s, such as Ivo Lola Ribar...

Intel 4004 and Intel 8008 were not powerful enough (in fact several microcomputers based on Intel chips were already on the market: the Canadian company...

Philips sold a modular 2650 computer called the 'IMS' – Industrial Microcomputer System, based on the Eurocard format in a 19" rack. It included CPU...

Applications", Microcomputer Solutions, September/October 1990, page 11 Chen, Allan, "The 50-MHz Intel486 Microprocessor", Intel Corporation, Microcomputer Solutions...

general purpose inputs. The microprocessor was used in the IMP-16P microcomputer and Jacquard Systems' J100 but saw little other use. The IMP-16 was...

TDL may refer to: Technical Design Labs, a former microcomputer- and software company Texas Digital Library, a consortium of institutions TDL Group, former...

The Fly Pentop Computer and FLY Fusion Pentop Computer are personal electronics products manufactured by LeapFrog Enterprises Inc. They are called a "pentop"...

Maintenance Management to Generation of Random Numbers". Encyclopedia of Microcomputers. Vol. 7. Marcel Dekker. p. 336. ISBN 0-8247-2706-1. Little, Jeff (2009-03-04)...

principles and basic tools to design typical digital systems such as microcomputers. He has also studied digital logic, computer architecture, and microprocessor-based...

WD16 processor in the Alpha Microsystems AM-100, and the DEC LSI-11 microcomputer, a cost-reduced and compact implementation of the DEC PDP-11. There...

registers in small embedded systems. The technique was common in 8-bit microcomputer systems. Bank-switching may also be used to work around limitations...

"New Product Focus: Components: New ASSP Suits Mobile Applications", Microcomputer Solutions, September/October 1990, page 11. iAPX 286 Programmer's Reference...

microcomputers, which became available from the mid-1970s onwards, BASIC became the dominant programming language. Nevertheless, some microcomputers provided...

Oric was a brand of home computers sold in the 1980s by Tangerine Computer Systems. Tangerine was based in the United Kingdom and sold their computers...

supply systems in electronics-based products that include especially microcomputers, servers, networking and telecommunications equipment. International...

January and March 1987, Dynatech acquired Cromemco, Inc., a pioneering microcomputer and digital imaging corporation founded in 1974 in Mountain View, California...

Poibos Part 1 Developer ZAT-SOFT Publisher Daimyo microcomputer academy Platforms NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-8001, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, FM-7, Sharp MZ,...

Audio Layer II) compressed digital audio workstation implemented on a microcomputer used not only as a professional editing station but also as a server...

flight-control systems in the latter half of the 1980s. The further advance of microcomputers in the 1980s and 1990s permitted rapid upgrades to the avionics over...

interchange. Diskettes formatted for this system stored 242,944 bytes. Early microcomputers used for engineering, business, or word processing often used one or...

The interconnect bottleneck comprises limits on integrated circuit (IC) performance due to limits on the speed of connections between components, versus...

Kent, Allen; Williams, James G. (18 November 1993). Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 13 – Optical Disks to Production Scheduling. CRC Press. p. 295...

business, printer included P602 1971 Microcomputer Integrated circuit For technical or scientific usage P603 1972 Microcomputer Integrated circuit P602 with Editor...

storage to compensate for the relatively small RAM sizes in typical microcomputers. The resulting Z-machine used an object tree structure for in-game items...

01/5.0) as well as some other Eastern European versions of DOS. On microcomputers based on the Intel 8086 and 8088 processors, including the IBM PC and...

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were far more reliable, but also comparatively costly.) The earliest microcomputers, such as the Altair 8800 (released first in 1975) and an even earlier...

Williams; Rosalind Kent; Carolyn M. Hall (October 1987). Encyclopedia of microcomputers. CRC Press. p. 240. ISBN 0-8247-2700-2. Borrill, Ray. "Ray Remembers...

Michael Erlewine was involved early in making astrological software for microcomputers available to the general public in the late 1970s. In 1978, Erlewine...

The Philips VG-8230 was a MSX2 standard compatible personal computer released in 1986. It was the first MSX2 machine from Philips, aimed at home users...

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February 1983. Retrieved 3 March 2023. Scannell, Tim (14 June 1982). "Microcomputers Leave Back Seat for Center Stage". Computerworld. p. 4. Retrieved 2...

The One chip MSX, or 1chipMSX as the D4 Enterprise distributional name for the ESE MSX System 3, is a re-implementation of an MSX-2 home computer that...

and founder of MITS where he created the Altair 8800 microcomputer, starting the microcomputer revolution. It featured Microsoft's first software, the...

of mostly compatible microcomputers made by VEB Mikroelektronik. Robotron KC 87 – A series of mostly compatible microcomputers also made by VEB Robotron...

development group within the company that studied several NEC-produced microcomputers for their potential for creating games. Among the first people assigned...

resource-limited microcomputers and embedded systems, and an implementation of that subset. Originally valuable as an early compiler for microcomputer systems...

diaries for the game's release the following year. After the rise of microcomputers in the 1970s, the MECC released several versions of the game over the...

Thomason Corporation". Information Intelligence Online Libraries and Microcomputers. 16 (10): 3–4. ISSN 0737-7770. ProQuest 206804972. Retrieved January...

microcode, like the much simpler 8-bit 6502 processor used in prior Acorn microcomputers. The 32-bit ARM architecture (and the 64-bit architecture for the most...

comprehensive fashion. Courseware is delivered on a networked system of microcomputers or terminals. Management systems collect and record results of student...

2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-10-13. Osborne, Adam (1980). An Introduction to Microcomputers. Vol. 1: Basic Concepts (2nd ed.). Berkeley, California: Osborne-McGraw...

10.5-inch platters, was a popular product. With increasing sales of microcomputers having built-in floppy-disk drives (FDDs), HDDs that would fit to the...

re-release of Cinematronics game from 1984. Originally developed by Advanced Microcomputer Systems. Asylum Unreleased 1992 Pro Quarterback SNES, Genesis 1993 Fun...

The PC532 was a "home-brew" microcomputer design created by George Scolaro and Dave Rand in 1989-1990, based on the National Semiconductor NS32532 microprocessor...

The IMSAI 8080 is an early microcomputer released in late 1975, based on the Intel 8080 (and later 8085) and S-100 bus. It is a clone of its main competitor...

Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Sanyo will launch three new microcomputers in the UK in January 1983. [..] PHC-25 is the most advanced. It will...

Australia and distributed there by Dick Smith Electronics. Advertised as "a microcomputer for everyone at a micro price ... a complete computer for $149.00 for...

Fiedler, Ryan (October 1983). "The Unix Tutorial / Part 3: Unix in the Microcomputer Marketplace". BYTE. p. 132. Retrieved 30 January 2015. "SunSoft introduces...

specialized in producing products similar to the American TRS-80 series of microcomputers, under the general name of "CP" (for "Computador Pessoal" in Portuguese...

Introduction] (in Japanese). 広済堂出版. NEC 1979 Catalog. Wellesley, MA: NEC Microcomputers, Inc. pp. 405–412. Retrieved 2020-07-16. 関口, 和一 (2000). パソコン革命の旗手たち...

The B20 is a line of microcomputers from Burroughs Corporation. The systems, introduced in May 1982, consist of two models: the B21 and the B22. The B21...

SuperCalc is a spreadsheet program published by Sorcim in 1980. VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program, but at first was not available for the CP/M...

plane or line for example. Two examples of aggregates generated using a microcomputer by allowing random walkers to adhere to an aggregate (originally (i)...

In June 1997, the company announced a potential acquisition of Hayes Microcomputer Products, a manufacturer of computer networking products—namely modems—based...

Tulip System I Tulip System I microcomputer Manufacturer Tulip Computers Type personal computer Released 1983; 43 years ago (1983) Operating system CP/M-86...

(2004). "L-E-Ds used in P-I-Ns". Pinball News. Retrieved 2025-12-06. Microcomputer Pinball service manual (PDF). Mirco Games. 1975. "Mirco Intro's Spirit...

Motorola Single-Chip Microcomputer Data. "Using the Serial Peripheral Interface to Communicate Between Multiple Microcomputers" (PDF). Bitsavers. SafeSPI...

C., "The 386 SL Microprocessor in Notebook PCs", Intel Corporation, Microcomputer Solutions, March/April 1991, page 20 "AMD Am386SX/SXL/SXLV Datasheet"...

Ingram Micro Incorporated. It quickly became the largest distributor of microcomputer hardware and software in the world. E.B. Ingram Ingram also founded...

the month prior to release. The Dot was intended to be the breakout microcomputer product for Computer Devices, Inc. (CDI), a successful manufacturer...

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Architecture", Microcomputer Solutions, January/February 1992, page 11 Lewnes, Ann, "The Intel386 Architecture Here to Stay", Intel Corporation, Microcomputer Solutions...

machine had been designed to be compatible with the Atari 400 and 800 microcomputers, Atari would not be in the state it is today. Instead, the 5200 game...

Christie G.; Crouch, Stanley R. (1994). Making the Right Connections: Microcomputers and Electronic Instrumentation. American Chemical Society. p. 389....

Later in the decade, members of Lysator developed and initially built a microcomputer, the LYS-16, which was advanced for its time due to its 16-bit word...

after pivoted to data acquisition boards for the first generation of microcomputers. Popular products included the Scientific Solutions LabMaster series...

Lexitron Corporation also produced a series of dedicated word-processing microcomputers. Lexitron was the first to use a full-sized video display screen (CRT)...

geometry and command structure to NAPLPS, was widely implemented on microcomputers, and became the basis of Digital Research's GSX graphics system used...

the original on 22 August 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024. "The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line". bbc.co.uk. 2011. Archived from the...

terminals, therefore several types of services: telephone (telephony), microcomputer (Internet access), television set (television transmission, video on...

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COP before the COPS". www.cpushack.com. Retrieved 2020-05-28. Sharp Microcomputers Data Book (PDF). September 1990. Retrieved 2018-01-05. Saturn CPU "Products:...

resources and does not rely on a server for essential functions. As microcomputers decreased in price and increased in power from the 1980s to the late...

A sample of these learning resources includes BASIC Computer Games, Microcomputer Edition (1978), by David Ahl; Programming the Z80 (1979), by Rodnay...

The die size is approximately 20 mm2. The 8080 was used in many early microcomputers, such as the MITS Altair 8800 Computer, Processor Technology SOL-20...

originally written for minicomputers, but was small enough to run on early microcomputers as well. It is one of the few structured programming languages that...

mainframe revenue. During the 1990s, companies found that servers based on microcomputer designs could be deployed at a fraction of the acquisition price and...

(8-slot) Q-Bus backplane, sufficient to configure a small 16-bit LSI-11 microcomputer system within the case, and supported an optional dual TU58 DECtape...

backed up at archive.org. The name Micro-Cap was derived from the term Microcomputer Circuit Analysis Program. The forerunners to the Micro-Cap simulator...

The Apple II at first used data cassette storage, like most other microcomputers of the time. In 1978, the company introduced an external 5+1⁄4-inch...

Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems began selling its Altair 8800 microcomputer kit by mail order. Microsoft released its first product Altair BASIC...

"Osborne/McGraw-Hill". He also wrote several books. One of them, An Introduction To Microcomputers, sold 300,000 copies. Osborne was known to frequent the Homebrew Computer...

1985 laptop computer Morrow Pivot II and numerous early-1980s CP/M microcomputers Morrow Property Brokers, Office 1303, Alameri Tower, Tecom, Dubai, United...

Richer and Marty Quinn founded Walker, Richer & Quinn (WRQ) to integrate microcomputers with existing IT environments. The company set its sights on the Hewlett-Packard...

mainframe systems fell tremendously in comparison to a number of smaller microcomputers handling the same load. As a result, many of the older computer companies...

and early 1980s and authored several books on operating systems and microcomputers. Dahmke was born in Columbus, Nebraska, in 1956.  His family moved to...

Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Sanyo will launch three new microcomputers in the UK in January 1983. [..] PHC-25 is the most advanced. It will...

C-Net DS2, a 1986 bulletin board system (BBS) for the Commodore 64 microcomputer Datsun DS-2, a 1951 car in the Datsun DS series DS-2, a type of Soviet...

computers by The Avalon Hill Game Company and developed by its division Microcomputer Games. Controller is a game in which the player is an air traffic controller...

ftdichip.com. Retrieved 22 March 2018. Adam Osborne, An Introduction to Microcomputers Volume 1: Basic Concepts, Osborne-McGraw Hill Berkeley California USA...

Once Required The Services Of Sources Of Chips", Intel Corporation, Microcomputer Solutions, January/February 1988, page 13 http://www.plasma-online.de/index...

Computing Service' - the UK's national academic supercomputer Hector (microcomputer) Hector (cloud), a named cumulonimbus cloud that forms consistently...

in Germany began. The name change marked a pivot towards providing microcomputers instead of college supplies. In October 1989, Metro AG acquired a majority...

the 1960s and 1970s built for contemporary mainframe terminals and microcomputers can only be played today through software emulation. While video games...

Acorn BBC Microcomputer with ECMA23/ANSI layout, @ is a singleton key and Shift-underline generates £ as character 96....

360 May 9, 2012 4J Studios Dragon's Lair Kinect May 18, 2012 Advanced Microcomputer Systems Joy Ride Turbo Xbox Live Arcade May 23, 2012 BigPark Kinect...

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from Owl Computers in 1981 and developed it for the Acorn Atom and BBC Microcomputer.[citation needed] Acornsoft LISP was released on cassette, disk and...

ex-principals of Onyx Systems, Plexus primarily manufactured minicomputers and microcomputers running Unix. The company was best known for its Motorola 68000–based...

Local Bus Extension (Execution Bus) Multichannel I/O Bus IEEE-796: Microcomputer System Bus; First released by Intel in 1974. The cards did not use front...

programmer Peter R. Jennings releases Microchess, the first game for microcomputers to be sold. 1977 – In March, Fidelity Electronics releases Chess Challenger...

(microprocessor), a family of microprocessors used in the HP series 80 scientific microcomputers Capricorn, one of the names for the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer Capricorn...

MEGAlink is a file transfer protocol for modem-equipped microcomputers written by Paul Meiners in 1987. Like many protocols of the era, MEGAlink is an...

for the Commodore 64/128. It was Amstrad's last peripheral for the microcomputer. The Magnum Light Phaser in many ways resembles the Light Phaser, the...

In computer networking, a thin client (sometimes called a slim client or lean client) is a simple, low-performance computer that has been optimized for...

 5B, 14B – via Newspapers.com. Nadeau, Michael (2002). Collectible Microcomputers. Schiffer Book for Collectors (Illustrated ed.). Schiffer Publishing...

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Fiedler, Ryan (October 1983). "The Unix Tutorial / Part 3: Unix in the Microcomputer Marketplace". BYTE. Vol. 8, no. 10. p. 132. Retrieved January 30, 2015...

Almquist shell (ash), and the popular Bourne-again shell (or Bash). Early microcomputers themselves were based on a command-line interface such as CP/M, DOS...

of the BASIC programming language written by Heathkit for their H8 microcomputers. The BASICs were patterned on Dartmouth BASIC, and thus differ in some...

Institute and the state-owned Nanfeng Machinery Factory. 1977 China's first microcomputer, the DJS-050, passed evaluation. The development of the Galaxy supercomputer...

students could move files between them and floppy disks at various microcomputers around campus, such as IBM or DEC DECSYSTEM-20 mainframes and Intertec...

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Brazil. With an introduction price of Cr$ 59,900, it was the cheapest microcomputer on sale in the country at the time. Specifications were similar to the...

Tiki Data was a manufacturer of microcomputers, located in Oslo, Norway. The company was founded in 1983 by Lars Monrad Krohn and Gro Jørgensen, and was...

several storms with this name .kim, top-level internet domain KIM-1, a microcomputer KIM, IATA code for Kimberley Airport, South Africa All pages with titles...

Catalog. Lexington, MA: NEC Microcomputers, Inc. Retrieved 2020-07-13. NEC 1979 Catalog. Wellesley, MA: NEC Microcomputers, Inc. Retrieved 2020-07-11....

Data Manual, Signetics Corporation, 1976 "The Bipolar Microcomputer Components Data Book for Design Engineers, Second Edition" (PDF). Texas...

Manufacturing Company, a Canadian manufacturer of heavy trucks Hayes Microcomputer Products, an American manufacturer of modems A.F.C. Hayes, an English...

The Netronics Explorer 85 was an Intel 8085 based computer produced by Netronics R&D Ltd. located in New Milford, Connecticut between 1979 and 1984. Netronics...

a step toward a future where films can be created completely on the microcomputer". That year the magazine gave it a Special Award for Innovation, and...

the best strategy adventure games ever to be seen on those early home microcomputers, the Midnight series: Lords of Midnight (released in 1984) and Doomdark's...

ISBN 9780596554729. Allen Kent, James G. Williams (5 October 1989). Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 4 - Computer-Related Applications: Computational Linguistics...

and later compilers – targeting their processors. These included the Microcomputer Development System (MDS), Personal Development System (PDS), In-Circuit...

can use this feature. Dozens of game consoles, arcade systems, and microcomputers have supported cores. This includes many of the popular 8-bit, 16-bit...

Marcel Dekker (CRC Press, 2002) ISBN 0-8247-2072-5 Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Allen Kent, James G Williams, Kent Kent (Marcel Dekke, 2002) ISBN 0-8247-2727-4...

last reviewed and confirmed in 2024. It was completely ignored; the microcomputer revolution had occurred while the specification was being argued over...

The System 9000 (S9000) is a family of microcomputers from IBM consisting of the System 9001, 9002, and 9003. The first member of the family, the System...

for the Commodore 64 and later ported to other 8-bit and early 16-bit microcomputers. Adventure Creator ? ? ? ? ? ? ? An early RPG maker for Apple II computers...

generally available only on mainframe computers, and most desktop-sized microcomputers such as the Wang 2200 or HP 9800 offered only BASIC. Because SCAMP was...

(Fujifilm) Samsung Q1, an Ultra Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC) Q1 microcomputer, an early offering in the history of personal computers The Universe...

support for the forthcoming window environment. IBM determined that the microcomputer market needed a multitasking environment. When it released TopView in...

December 18, 2023. National Museum of American History. "AT&T 6300 Microcomputer and VirtualVideo Producer Software". Smithsonian. Retrieved December...

The motherboard of an early microcomputer, the Microtan 65, showing the silver-cased ASTEC 1111EM36 UHF TV modulator at top left...

J.; Chew, Paul (1980). A Consumer's Guide to Personal Computing and Microcomputers. Hayden Book Company. ISBN 9780810451162 – via Google Books. Holstein...

than conventional hard drive storage. The first software RAM drive for microcomputers was invented and written by Jerry Karlin in the UK in 1979/80. The software...

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The Sol-20 was among the first fully assembled microcomputers with a built-in keyboard and television output, what would later be known as a home computer...

1980s and based in Ithaca, New York. The company both manufactured microcomputers and peripherals and developed its own software. Ithaca InterSystems...

top of the charts" and became "one of the most popular games for any microcomputer". In the October 1982 issue of Computer Gaming World, associate publisher...

FreeDOS (formerly PD-DOS) is a free software operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. It intends to provide a complete MS-DOS-compatible environment...

Motorola-S-Format" [1.8.5. Paper tape data formats]. Arbeitsbuch Mikrocomputer [Microcomputer work book] (in German) (2 ed.). Munich, Germany: Franzis-Verlag GmbH...

"The weird and wonderful CIC". Hackmii. Retrieved May 18, 2010. Sharp Microcomputers Data Book (PDF). September 1990. pp. 26–34. Retrieved May 8, 2017. "CIC...

ISBN 0-7803-7690-0. Lea, R. M. (1988). "ASP: A Cost-Effective Parallel Microcomputer". IEEE Micro. 8 (5): 10–29. doi:10.1109/40.87518. S2CID 25901856. "Linedancer...

Microsoft Xenix or a version from AT&T Corporation as the Unix for its microcomputer, PC/IX was the first Unix implementation for the IBM PC XT available...

The Acorn Business Computer (ABC) was a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers. The series of eight...

the computer science department from 1987 to 1991. He founded UCSB's Microcomputer Laboratory in 1979. During the years 1963 to 1969, UCSB mathematicians...

Andrew Laurie in 1981, in order to capitalise on the growing boom of microcomputers in the home. The company had a solid reputation but became more prominent...

dir, short for directory, is a shell command for listing file system contents: files and directories. Arguably, the command provides the same essential...

Paderborn. The fifth edition in 1995 was also the 13th edition of the World Microcomputer Chess Championship. Complete results and crosstables the CSVN: [1] Archived...

Zemina (Korean: 재미나, originally 제미나) was a South Korean software maker brand of Saehan Trading (Korean: 새한 상사) founded in 1981. They primarily made games...

150-watt jammers, 3 bilateral band listening vehicles, 1 set of IBM PC/XT microcomputers; 171 troops (including 52 cadres and 119 soldiers) were invested. The...

CPMulator is a program to emulate the CP/M operating system under PC DOS / MS-DOS for IBM PC compatibles. The program was developed in 1984 by Keystone...

company, New Wave Technology, has created an injectable solution of microcomputers called microspheres that, when administered, converts a human into a...

microprocessor, from which it gets its name. The SWTPC 6800 was one of the first microcomputers based around the Motorola 6800. The SWTPC 6800 is the progenitor of...

350 (PRO-350), and Professional 380 (PRO-380) are PDP-11 compatible microcomputers. The Pro-325/350 were introduced in 1982 and the Pro-380 in 1985 by...

HDOS is a microcomputer disk operating system, originally written for the 1977 Heathkit H8 computer system and later also available for the Heathkit H89...

Guide Channel, an American cable channel TV Games Computer, an early microcomputer This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TVGC...

Commissioned by the USSR Ministry of Radio, for many years it was a popular microcomputer in Soviet schools. The Agat was first introduced at a Moscow trade fair...

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any event, many early adopters of microcomputers were indifferent to the physical appearance of their microcomputers and prioritized the electronics inside...

124 – via the Internet Archive. Nadeau, Michael (2002). Collectible Microcomputers. Schiffer Book for Collectors (Illustrated ed.). Schiffer Publishing...

Temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) 10−6 2...5 ppm 100 μW 50 Microcomputer-compensated crystal oscillator (MCXO) 10−8 to 10−7 1...3 ppm 200 μW...

comparison between the capabilities of the ZX81 and various other competing microcomputers that were available in June 1981, about the time that the first ZX81...

contemporary illustrator known for his monthly cover illustrations for the microcomputer publication Byte Magazine spanning over a decade. In so doing, Tinney...

The APC (Advanced Personal Computer) was a series of business microcomputers released outside of Japan by the NEC Corporation. The series comprised the...

might refer to: A supercomputer or a mainframe computer built using microcomputer technology Super Micro Computer, Inc., an American computer hardware...

phone Pratt & Whitney X-1800, an H-block aircraft engine Telmac 1800, a microcomputer Tobu 1800 series, an express electric multiple unit train type Volvo...

original on 2015-05-17. Kolakowski, Michael M. (1982). The N.W.C-1 Microcomputer (Thesis). New College of Florida. "Victoria Kolakowski - Lawyer in Oakland...

IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) relative to its rapid growth in the microcomputer market. Harris in particular saw a need for a terminal emulator for...

Rheingold calls Computer Lib "the best-selling underground manifesto of the microcomputer revolution." It has since been referred to as "the most influential...

Dreams R-Type 2 1991 Y N Activision R/C Aerochopper 1991 Y N Ambrosia Microcomputer Race Drivin' 1992 Y N Domark Racing Game (The) Y N Tanglewood Software...

The VG-8020 was Philips' third MSX computer introduced in 1984, after the VG-8000 and the VG-8010 computers. With a price of 2990 Fr, the machine was MSX1...

FlexOS is a discontinued modular real-time multiuser multitasking operating system (RTOS) designed for computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail...

Utilities for the 8049 Microcomputer". Intel Corporation. Application Note AP-49. A High-Speed Emulator for Intel MCS-48 Microcomputers. Intel Corporation...

the modern mountain bike Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, microcomputer entrepreneur Gary Kreps, American health and risk communication scholar...

used to disprove Euler's sum of powers conjecture on a Sinclair QL microcomputer using just one-fourth of the integer precision used by a CDC 6600 supercomputer...

and II Plus (pictured), invented by Steve Wozniak, helped spur the microcomputer revolution at the time. The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35)...

include: Tektronix 4014 computer terminal Tektronix 405x graphical microcomputers Tektronix 408x graphical minicomputers (original DRADIS of Battlestar...

the TI-99/4A, which has a full-travel keyboard) Thomson MO5 (French microcomputer based on the 6809 microprocessor) Timex Sinclair 1500 (U.S. ZX81 derivation)...

originally named MISTRESS. It was based on research done on "MRS: A microcomputer database management system" at the University of Toronto, which was...

machine in compliance with newly implemented FCC regulations covering microcomputers. Small grids of plastic pins, and sometimes Velcro, were used to hold...

and Raza Jessa, and grew to become one of the best-known suppliers of microcomputers and micro peripherals during the 1980s. In the 1970s Watford Electronics...

the theodolites, electronic and satellite positioning equipment, and microcomputer based mapping equipment. Training for this MOS was conducted at the...

issue That year, MECC began encouraging schools to adopt the Apple II microcomputer. John Cook adapted the game for the Apple II, and it appeared on A.P...

parsers to be added to the editor, for text, programs, data file, etc. On microcomputers, MacPascal 1.0 (October 10, 1985) recognized Pascal syntax as it was...

while working at the crane factory at Kone. After getting a job at the microcomputer shop Topdata in March, Suonio made a deal with the shop's owner Teuvo...

and a loyal dealer base. BYTE called the Victor 9000 "an excellent microcomputer with an outstanding array of standard features". It praised the high-quality...

mobile lab. Industrial Design With Microcomputers (ISBN 978-0134594613) 1982 Creative Design With Microcomputers (ISBN 978-0131893177) 1984 (2nd edition...

Differential Equations Linear Algebra Analytic Geometry Introduction to Microcomputer Software AP Environmental Science Anatomy/Physiology Organic Chemistry...

and stated that "GF is a first rate military simulation." Commodore Microcomputers named it one of the top computer wargames of 1986. Harrington, William...

emitted a gas that helped him mold his features. He later obtained a microcomputer from Spencer Smythe for his belt buckle that could be programmed with...

BASIC were designed to be lightweight so that they could run on the microcomputers of the 1980s, because of memory constraints. Forth is a stack-based...

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a deeper more intricate, look at the gaming functions of the Atari microcomputer. In any case, the book is very well done and should prove to be a great...

(PDF). MCS-4 Assembly Language Programming Manual - The INTELLEC 4 Microcomputer System Programming Manual (Preliminary ed.). Santa Clara, California...

Iskradata 1680 was a computer developed by the Iskradata in 1979. Its manufacturer was Iskra Ljubljana. It was the recipient of the IF Product Design Award...

Allen Kent; James G. Williams, eds. (1987). "APL for Microcomputers". Encyclopedia of Microcomputers. Vol. 1. pp. 206–207. ISBN 0824727002. A.D. Falkoff;...

a new imaginative Monopoly-type microcomputer game that everyone can and will want to play if you have a microcomputer. Like the Monopoly game, STAR LANES...

Miners) is a game published by the Microcomputer Games division of Avalon Hill for the TRS-80 Level II microcomputer in 1980. It was ported to the Atari...

the 6800 microprocessor, which powered some of the first available microcomputers, to handle the graphics and calculations of the specifications needed...

II Suspended Infocom, Inc. Adventure game. II Telengard Avalon Hill Microcomputer Games Dungeon exploration RPG. II Trivia+Plus SRS Systems Trivia+Plus...