NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Video Game Industry, Compaq Portable, Compuserve
13 Oct 2012
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Computer at home and the per- sonal computing paradigm. Informal and unedited notes, not for distribution. (c) z. stachniak, 2011. Note: in cases i were unable to nd the primary source of an image or determine whether or not an image is copyrighted, i have speci ed the source as unknown . I will provide full information about images and/or obtain reproduction rights when such information is available to me. Volume manufacturing of microcomputers for commercial markets began in: microcomputers were primarily employed as embedded control systems (e. g. french micral) but also as data processing units for business, research, and educational applications (e. g. canadian mcm/70). It was not before late 1970s, when general purpose microcomputers were manufactured in hundreds of thousands of units per year. This sudden de- mand for microcomputers was caused, in part, by the introduction of mi- crocomputer hardware and software capable of supporting small business operations and computer literacy programs.
