Main article: Xerox AltoThe Xerox Star systems concept owes much to the Xerox Alto, an experimental workstation designed by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The first Alto became operationa ...
The Alto was conceived in 1972 in a memo written by Butler Lampson, inspired by the On-Line System (NLS) developed by Douglas Engelbart at SRI, and was designed primarily by Chuck Thacker. Industrial ...
A GUI uses a combination of technologies and devices to provide a platform that the user can interact with, for the tasks of gathering and producing information.A series of elements conforming a visua ...
Active all his life, Noyce enjoyed reading Hemingway, flying his own airplane, hang gliding, and scuba diving. Noyce believed that microelectronics would continue to advance in complexity and sophisti ...
Like all other video game consoles, the Magnavox Odyssey is a digital console. However, like all consoles up until the eighth generation, it uses analog circuitry for the video output, due to the fact ...
Several consoles such as the Sega Master System and the TurboGrafx-16 have used different types of smart cards as an external medium. These cards function similar to simple cartridges. Information is ...
First generation Main article: History of video game consoles (first generation)See also: First video gameThe Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console, released in 1972.Although the first vid ...
The initial ARPANET consisted of four IMPs:University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where Leonard Kleinrock had established a Network Measurement Center, with an SDS Sigma 7 being the first compu ...
Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, Jack Kilby grew up and attended school in Great Bend, Kansas, graduating from Great Bend High School. (Road signs at the entrances to the town commemorate his time th ...
Circuits meeting this definition can be constructed using many different technologies – see for example thin-film transistor, thick film technology, or hybrid integrated circuit. However, in general ...
Computer software is any kind of computer program, procedure, or documentation that performs some task on a computer system. The term includes application software such as word processors which perfor ...
The Programma 101 was the first commercial "desktop personal computer", produced by the Italian company Olivetti and invented by the Italian engineer Pier Giorgio Perotto, inventor of the magnetic car ...
IBM was recognized as one of the "Top 20 Best Workplaces for Commuters" by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2005. The award was to recognize Fortune 500 companies which provi ...
1881–1929 Thomas J Watson Sr.jpg "THINK"MENU0:00Thomas J. Watson, who led IBM from 1914 to 1956, discussing the company's motto "THINK"Problems playing this file? See media help.In the 1880s, various ...
With only a high school education, McLean pumped gas at a service station near his hometown and saved enough money by 1934 to buy a second-hand truck for $120. He and his sister, Clara McLean, and bro ...
