NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Simple Machine, David Buss, Micro Instrumentation And Telemetry Systems
10 Nov 2015
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Two types: the mainframe computer (large scale) + the mini computer (medium scale) 40% of hobbyist spent over 20 hours a week playing with computers at home. 10% spent more than 40 hours a week playing with computers at home. Deliberately keeping the technology from average day citizen. Personal computers had to be thank for the semi-conductor industry. Advances in integrated circuits were mass marketed to the public. Insured market and long production runs for integrated circuit technologies. Intel corporation created logic chips that is used for general purpose use (computers and calculators) 1971, creation of the 4004 - marketed as micro programmable computer on a chip. Then advanced to the 8008 chip and the 8080 chip. Computer companies did not believe there was a market for the personal computer (even intel) Imagined computers being used in a time share capacity. Xerox created a machine that utilized microprocessor technology in 1972.
