Microcomputer emerges
Hasitha Helappriya
December 31, 2010
The advent of the microprocessor and solid-state memory made home computing affordable. Early hobby microcomputer systems such as the Altai...
Friday, December 31, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Micral N
Hasitha Helappriya
December 29, 2010
In France, the company R2E (Renationalisation et Etudes Electronics) formed by two former engineers of the Intertechnique company, And...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080
Hasitha Helappriya
December 28, 2010
Development of the single-chip microprocessor was an enormous catalyst to the popularization of cheap, easy to use, and truly personal compu...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Mainframes and minicomputers
Hasitha Helappriya
December 22, 2010
Before the introduction of the microprocessor in the early 1970s, computers were generally large, costly systems owned by large institu...
