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- 2701: Gates World
- ... Gates Home Mail. It will allow you to send and receive anything electronically. You can forget about having to walk to the mail box, and having to deal with that angry postal worker! Forget about writing checks for bills, with the Gates Network you can electronically transfer your funds directly from your own personal Gates Bank account to any account in the world. The Gates Computer will provide your home with digital clarity sound! And with the Gates Radio Network you can listen to any style of music any ...
- 2702: The History and Development of Computers
- ... and Apple Computers. In the early 1980's, arcade video games and home video game systems such as the Atari 2600 ignited consumer interest for more sophisticated, programmable home computers. In 1981, IBM introduced its personal computer (PC) for use in the home, office and schools. The 1980's saw an expansion in computer use in all three arenas as clones of the IBM PC made the personal computer even more affordable. The number of personal computers in use more than doubled from 2 million in 1981 to 5.5 million in 1982. Ten years later, 65 million PCs were being used. Computers continued their trend toward a smaller size, ...
- 2703: Virtual Reality
- Virtual Reality INTRODUCTION Imagine yourself being able to jump off of the Empire State Building and fly over New York City on your own personal tour. You catch a glimpse of Madison Square, you see a breathtaking view of Broadway, and then you quickly pass over Monk's Coffee Shop, where Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer have spent many a ... also full body suits with position and bend sensors used for character animation. I have three specific examples of VR equipment for you. This is the InterTrax. It is a precision head tracker accessory for personal displays. It is being marketed as "a breakthrough in real time motion sensing technology." You can connect it to a computer easily through a mouse connection. It is not affected by electrical or magnetic interference ... be used with the InterTrax. The Sony Glasstron provides a 35 degree field of view with crisp, variable transparency display. It is good for professional visualization & simulation applications. It can also be connected to your personal computer easily. The Philips Scuba also provides a wide field of view display. It is good for short duration theme park & arcade style applications. All of these items have specific purposes, and better ones ...
- 2704: Windows NT vs Unix As An Operating System
- ... machine that would support hundreds of simultaneous timesharing users. They envisaged one huge machine providing computing power for everyone in Boston. The idea that machines as powerful as their GE-645 would be sold as personal computers costing only a few thousand dollars only 20 years later would have seemed like science fiction to them. However MULTICS proved more difficult than imagined to implement and Bell Labs withdrew from the project ... driver architecture that provides many advantages in terms of flexibility, maintainability, and portability. Windows NT's device driver architecture requires that new drivers be written before Windows NT can be compatible with existing hardware. While writing new drivers involves a lot of development effort on the part of Microsoft and independent hardware vendors (IHV), most of the hardware devices supported by Windows for MS-DOS will be supported by new drivers ...
- 2705: The Evolution of the PC and Microsoft
- The Evolution of the PC and Microsoft Computer Tech. ESSAY Xerox, Apple, IBM, and Compaq all played major roles in the development of the Personal Computer, or ³PC,² and the success of Microsoft. Though it may seem so, the computer industry did not just pop-up overnight. It took many years of dedication, hard-work, and most importantly, thievery to turn the personal computer from a machine the size of a Buick, used only by zit-faced ³ nerds,² to the very machine I am typing this report on. Xerox started everything off by creating the first personal computer, the ALTO, in 1973. However, Xerox did not release the computer because they did not think that was the direction the industry was going. This was the first of many mistakes Xerox would ...
- 2706: Telecommunications
- ... from last year's statistics. At the end of 1995, 10 million computers with 40-50 million users were assumed to be connected to the network-of-networks. If it goes on like this, most personal computers will be wired to the network at the end of this century (Internet Society 1996). The Internet is phenomenal in many ways. One of them is that it connects people from different nations and ... the public Internet: by host, network, terminal, or gateway access. Host access is usually done either with local area networks or with the use of telephone lines and modems combined with Internet software on a personal computer. Host access allows the attached computer to fully interact with any other attached computerlimited only by the bandwidth of the connection and the capability of the computer. Network access is similar to host ... line that connects to a local or wide area network. All the attached computers can become Internet hosts. Terminal access is usually done via telephone lines and modems combined with terminal-emulation software on a personal computer. It allows interaction with another computer that is an Internet host. Gateway access is similar to terminal access but is provided via on-line or similar proprietary services, or other networks such as ...
- 2707: Electronic Monitoring vs. Health Concerns
- ... increased profits I would call this a win-win situation. If the savings are passed to the customer, you could even have a win-win-win situation. Works Cited CQ Researcher. "Privacy in the Workplace." Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Ed. Laurence Behrens and Leonard Rosen. 6th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. 441-445. Ternipsede, Harriet. "Is Electronic Monitoring of Workers Really Necessary?" Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Ed. Laurence Behrens and Leonard Rosen. 6th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. 446-448. Whalen, John. "You're Not Paranoid: They Really Are Watching You." Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Ed. Laurence Behrens and Leonard Rosen. 6th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. 430-440.
- 2708: Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age
- ... centralization, as well as beyond the materialist's obsession with energy, money and control. Turning the economics of mass-production inside out, new information technologies are driving the financial costs of diversity -- both product and personal -- down toward zero, "demassifying" our institutions and our culture. Accelerating demassification creates the potential for vastly increased human freedom. It also spells the death of the central institutional paradigm of modern life, the bureaucratic organization ... computer technology. Apart from the minicomputer boom, mainframe computers were the market, and America's dominance was largely based upon the position of a dominant vendor -- IBM, with over 50% world market-share. Then the personal-computing industry exploded, leaving older-style big-business- focused computing with a stagnant, piece of a burgeoning total market. As IBM lost market-share, many people became convinced that America had lost the ability to ... we feel so bad?" In part, this is why: Because we constitute the final generation of an old civilization and, at the very same time, the first generation of a new one. Much of our personal confusion and social disorientation is traceable to conflict within us and within our political institutions -- between the dying Second Wave civilization and the emergent Third Wave civilization thundering in to take its place. Second ...
- 2709: Computer Literacy
- Computer Literacy For over fifty years, beginning with the famous ENIAC, a revolution has been taking place in the United States and the world. The personal computer has changed the way many people think and live. With its amazing versatility, it has found its way into every area of life, and knowing how to operate it is a requirement for today ... e-mail. A good computer class would teach the basics of computers: typing a document in a word processor, running a specified program, and using a modem to check e-mail and access the Internet. Personal computers now have a tremendous entertainment value due to their versatility. Not only can a computer do all the things that are unique to computers, it can be a television and a radio as well ... grow as time passes, and being able to navigate quickly and successfully is becoming more and more important. A computer course is an advantageous investment in a student's future with today's technology. A personal computer is the most diverse machine in the world and being familiar with its uses is a must to be successful. The amount of practical application that it will have is astounding, and it ...
- 2710: Computers, I Don't Like Computers. So Why Can't I Get A Job?
- ... in wharehouses. The earlier ones used paper with holes in them to give it instructions. Later the pre-PC's used tape cartridges to store data on. Then came along in 1979 the first real personal computer. Apple came out on the market with the Apple PC. Two years later IBM came out with their version of the personal computer. When IBM came out with their computer they were now in the PC market. Apple's biggest mistake was not to make MS-DOS their operating system and they failed the market due to ... software driven like it is today. The computer is just a paper weight without the software to go along with it. Microsoft's success was getting into the market early wih software for the IBM personal computer. Apple was not doing this as well as IBM and microsoft was. We are now in the information age where information and computers are one. The information age is going to be responsable ...
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