Microcomputers in a sentence

Early microcomputers used for engineering, business, or word processing often used one or more 8-inch disk drives for removable storage; the CP/M operating system was developed for microcomputers with 8-inch drives.

Builders will need to solder and assemble electric components and microcomputers.

Some hardware skills are required for assembly including soldering, real-time clocks, LCD displays, and microcomputers.

The brain we now see is a network of perhaps 40 billion microcomputers hooked up in a network.

Affordable 8-bit microprocessors with 16-bit addressing also led to the first general-purpose microcomputers from the mid-1970s on.

Almost all early microcomputers were built in this fashion, starting with the S-100 bus in the Altair 8800 computer system.

Although they did not contain any microprocessors, but were built around transistor-transistor logic (TTL), Hewlett-Packard calculators as far back as 1968 had various levels of programmability such that could be called microcomputers.

And although today's PCs and servers are clearly microcomputers physically, architecturally their CPUs and operating systems have developed largely by integrating features from minicomputers.

Byte magazine, at the time one of the leading industry magazines for microcomputers, essentially ceased covering CP/M products within a few years of the introduction of the IBM PC.

Comparisons between ZX81 and other computing devices The following table provides a comparison between the capabilities of the ZX81 and various other competing microcomputers that were already on the market at the time of the ZX81's launch.

End-users could readily upgrade peripherals and, to some degree, processor and memory without modifying the computer's motherboard or replacing the whole computer, as was the case with many of the microcomputers of the time.

History and operating system specifics The first software RAM drive for microcomputers was invented and written by Jerry Karlin in the UK in 1979/80.

However, during the conversion of CP/M to a commercial product, trademark registration documents filed in November 1977 gave the product's name as "Control Program for Microcomputers".

However, the emerging third-party software industry disregarded the PDP-11/Professional line and concentrated on other microcomputers where distribution was easier.

Microcomputers such as the Apple II and IBM PC used ROM chips mounted in sockets on the motherboard.

Most early microcomputers relied on hand-coded assembly language, including most operating systems and large applications.

On some 6502-based microcomputers with an operating system, the OS uses most of zero page, leaving only a handful of locations for the user.

The Altair 8800 was one of the first microcomputers intended for home use.

The Apple II was targeted for the masses rather than just hobbyists and engineers; it also influenced most of the microcomputers that followed it.

The company could have sold its entire projected first-year production to employees, and IBM customers that were reluctant to purchase Apples were glad to buy microcomputers from its traditional supplier.