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Historical Context:Nelma Data Corporation was a desktop computer manufacturer based in Mississauga Ontario. In 1982, the company announced its Persona…
Historical context:Microprocessor-based computers (microcomputers) were built at educational institutions as soon as the first 8-bit microprocessors…
Historical Context: Multiflex Technology Inc. was one of the companies of the Exceltronix group controlled by Eugen Hutka. In 1979, Hutka founded…
Historical Context:In the 1950s, the operators of mainframe computers used dedicated consoles, hardcopy terminals (such as teletypes and modified…
Historical ContextSince the 1950s, computer operators had used a variety of cathode ray tube (CRT) terminals for displaying information in a…
Historical context (by Z. Stachniak)The MCS-8 microcomputer set was announced by Intel in late 1971.Everyone in systems engineering has been waiting…
Historical context (by Z. Stachniak)The commercialization of the transistor in the first half of the 1950s had a dramatic impact on the decade-old…
Historical context(by Z. Stachniak)The rapid development of computer technologies and applications in the 1950s and 1960s created demand for sharing…
Historical context(by Z. Stachniak)The industrial revolution of the 19th century brought new manufacturing methods and with them the ability to…
Nortel Europa(description courtesy of Mobile Phone Museum)The Nortel One (also known as the Europa handset) was an early instance of what’s come to…