Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC and using the trademark DIGITAL, was a major American company in the computer industry. It was a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s, with its PDP and VAX products were the most successful (in terms of sales) minicomputers. From 1957 until 1992 its headquarters was located in a former wool mill at Clock Tower Place, Maynard, Massachusetts. DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, which...
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM), or IBM, is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. The company was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) through a merger of three companies: the...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific, engineering, and technological education and research, and is considered one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the institute adopted the...
Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Intel is the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel Corporation, founded on July 18, 1968, is a portmanteau of Integrated Electronics (the fact that "intel" is the term for intelligence information was also...
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It provides products, technologies, software, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors. The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by William (Bill) Redington Hewlett and Dave Packard. HP had...
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, Seymour Cray worked at CDC and developed a series of machines that were the fastest computers in the world by far. CDC only lost that title in the 1970s after Cray left the company to found Cray Research (CRI). CDC was one of the nine major United States computer companies through most of the 1960s; the others were IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA, and UNIVAC. CDC was well known...
Xerox Corporation (pron.: /ˈzɪərɒks/) is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (moved from Stamford, Connecticut in October 2007), though its largest population of employees is based in and around Rochester, New York, the area in which...
Texas Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: TXN), known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology. TI is the third largest manufacturer of semiconductors worldwide after Intel and Samsung, the second largest supplier of chips for cellular handsets after Qualcomm, and the largest producer of digital signal processors (DSPs) and analog semiconductors, among a wide range of other semiconductor products,...
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company was divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011.[6] Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off. Motorola designed and sold wireless network...
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, that specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The products of National Semiconductor included power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, communication interface products and data conversion solutions. National's key markets included wireless handsets, displays and a variety of broad electronics markets, including medical, automotive,...
Honeywell International, Inc. (NYSE: HON) is a major American conglomerate company that produces a variety of commercial and consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments. Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company with a workforce of approximately 130,000, of whom approximately 58,000 are employed in the United States. The company is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey. Its current chief...
UNIVAC is the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company and successor organizations. The descendants of the UNIVAC line continue today as products of the Unisys company. UNIVAC is an acronym for UNIVersal Automatic Computer. J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly built the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) at the...
Scientific Data Systems, or SDS, was an American computer company founded in September 1961 by Max Palevsky, a veteran of Packard Bell and Bendix, along with eleven other computer scientists. SDS was an early adopter of integrated circuits in computer design and the first to employ silicon transistors. The company concentrated on larger scientific workload focused machines and sold many machines to NASA during the Space Race. Most machines were both fast and relatively low priced. The company...
Electronics is a discontinued American trade journal that covers the radio industry and subsequent industries from 1930 to 1995. Its first issue is dated April 1930. The periodical was published with the title Electronics until 1984, when it was changed temporarily to ElectronicsWeek, but was then reverted to the original title Electronics in 1985. The ISSN for the corresponding periods are: ISSN 0013-5070 for the 1930–1984 issues, ISSN 0748-3252 for the 1984–1985 issues with title...
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and after the 1986 merger with Sperry Univac was renamed as Unisys. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing. At its start it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers. And while it was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world,...
Tektronix, Inc. is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment. In November 2007, Danaher Corporation acquired Tektronix as a subsidiary. The company traces its roots to the electronics revolution that immediately followed World War II. The company’s founders C. Howard Vollum and Melvin J. "Jack" Murdock invented the world’s first triggered oscilloscope in 1946, a...
Data General was one of the first minicomputer firms from the late 1960s. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation. Their first product, the Data General Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer. This used their own operating system, RDOS, and in conjunction with programming languages like "Data General Business Basic" they provided a multi-user operating system with record locking and inbuilt data bases far ahead of many contemporary systems. The Nova...
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982. At its height, Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center. On January 27, 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 billion, based on an agreement signed on April 20, 2009. The following month, Sun Microsystems, Inc....
Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork...
Published by Edmund C. Berkeley since 1950. Computers and Automation was the first computer magazine. It was originally called Roster of Organizations in the Field of Automatic Computing Machinery, and later The Computing Machinery Field. This publication initiated the first Computer Art Contest since 1963. A regular bibliography on computer art was compiled by Mezei, Leslie since 1966. Stopped publishing in 1972.
George Morrow (January 30, 1934 - May 7, 2003) was part of the early microcomputer industry in the United States. Morrow promoted and improved the S-100 bus used in many early microcomputers. Morrow was also a member of the Homebrew Computer Club. Born in Detroit in 1934, Morrow was a high school dropout. At the age of 28, he decided to return to school, receiving a bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford University, followed by a master's degree in mathematics from the University of...
Autonetics was a division of North American Aviation. Through a series of mergers, Autonetics is now part of Boeing. Autonetics originated in North American Aviation's Technical Research Laboratory, a small unit in the Los Angeles Division's engineering department in 1945. In 1946, the laboratory won an Army Air Force contract to develop a 175- to-500-mile-range glide missile. The work and the lab expanded, so that by June 1948, all of the Aerophysics Laboratory was consolidated at Downey,...
Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system. Symbolics, Inc. was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later in Concord, Massachusetts, with manufacturing facilities in Chatsworth, California (a suburban section of Los Angeles). Its first CEO,...
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The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and then Librascope General Precision, was an early off-the-shelf computer. It was manufactured by the Librascope company of Glendale, California (a division of General Precision Inc.), and sold and serviced by the Royal Precision Electronic Computer Company, a joint venture with the Royal McBee division of the Royal Typewriter Company. The LGP-30 was first manufactured in 1956 with a retail price of $47,000. The LGP-30 was commonly referred...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ti :: dataBooks :: 1985 The TTL Data Book Vol 2
Topics: input, output, voltage, max, texas, min, operating, vcc, outputs, note, post office, instruments...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the core companies of Mitsubishi.
Corvus Systems was a technology company founded by Michael D'Addio and Mark Hahn in 1979 and located in San Jose, Silicon Valley, in the U.S. Corvus was a pioneer of the early days of personal computers, producing the first hard disk drives, data backup, and networking devices, commonly for the Apple II series. The combination of disk storage, backup, and networking was very popular in primary and secondary education. A classroom would have a single drive and backup with a full classroom of...
An archive of Digital Design magazine.
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. sds :: sigma :: diag :: 901678A Sigma5 7 Comprehensive RAD Tester Jan70
Topics: test, data, memory, byte, address, lbad, xds, errbr, oata, addr, operation operand, prot key,...
From the bitsavers.org collectio n, a scanned-in computer-related document. unitedTechPubs :: 1985 Electronic Engineers Master Vol 2
Tymshare, Inc. was a well-known timesharing service and third-party hardware maintenance company throughout its history and competed with companies such as Four Phase, Compuserve, and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, Digital). Tymshare developed or acquired innovative technologies, including data networking (Tymnet), electronic data interchange (EDI), credit card and payment processing (TTS, Western29), telecommunications provisioning (COEES), office automation (August, Augment) and database...
Western Digital Corporation (often abbreviated to WDC or WD) is one of the largest computer hard disk drive (along with Seagate Technology) manufacturers in the world. It has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970 by Alvin B. Phillips, a Motorola employee, as General Digital, initially (and briefly) a manufacturer of MOS test equipment. It rapidly became a speciality semiconductor...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. icMaster :: 1983 IC Master Volume 1
Topics: motorola, national, fairchild, signetics, rca, hitachi, amd, raytheon, sgs, data, motorola...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. icMaster :: 1979 IC Master
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. signetics :: dataBooks :: 1979 Signetics Analog Applications
Topics: output, figure, voltage, input, frequency, phase, current, signal, circuit, amplifier, phase...
How to Build a Working Digital Computer, by Edward Alcosser, James P. Phillips, Allen M. Wolk. From Hayden Book Company, Inc. New York. Includes Introduction, Communicating with the Computer, Computers and Logic, Computer Arithetic, Storage Devices, Computer Control, Programming Our Computer, Appendices, Index.
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Topics: core, computer, rin, binary, lamp, switch, ace, digital, program, decimal, digital computer,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. dec :: Books :: 101 BASIC Computer Games Mar75
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Topics: print, vou, goto, vour, input, program, gosub, computer, game, print print, program listing,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. rca :: Radiotron Designers Handbook 1954
Topics: voltage, frequency, grid, circuit, plate, output, input, resistance, current, valve, plate current,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. icMaster :: 1984 IC Master Volume 1
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. icMaster :: 1978 IC Master
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. nec :: databooks :: 1990 NEC Single-Chip Microcontroller Data Book
Topics: vdd, input, data, output, port, mode, clock, reset, memory, system clock, program memory, mode...
Computer Automation Inc. was a computer manufacturer founded by David H Methvin in 1968, based originally in Irvine, California, USA. In 1981 they moved to Boulder, Colorado, and in 1985 moved back to Irvine, California and finally in 1990 moved to Richardson, Texas. The company was known for its Naked Mini line of computers introduced in 1972, and the Naked Milli from 1975. The company last filed a financial statement in 1992. Original from Wikipedia
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. icMaster :: 1977 IC Master
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ibm :: 360 :: os :: cobol :: GC28-6399-2 COBOL Compiler and Library Version 2 Programmers Guide Jul72
Topics: data, statement, compiler, programmer, control, source, ibm, user, programming, program, data set,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. dec :: decus :: programCatalogs :: DECUS Catalog PDP-8 Aug78
Topics: program, media, source, price, focal, memory, operating, fortran, programs, decus, media price,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. borland :: turbo prolog :: Turbo Prolog Owners Handbook 1987
Topics: turbo, prolog, program, predicate, predicates, file, domains, clauses, goal, domain, turbo prolog,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. mit :: whirlwind :: Redmond Project Whirlwind A Case History In Contemporary Technology 1975
Topics: forrester, whirlwind, project, computer, mit, digital, onr, navy, program, defense, project...
From the bitsavers.org collectio n, a scanned-in computer-related document. gi :: dataBooks :: 1983 GI Monsanto Optoelectronic Products
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ibm :: 3270 :: GA23-0059-4 3270 Data Stream Programmers Reference Dec88
Topics: data, field, structured, character, partition, query, stream, reply, display, attribute, structured...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ti :: dataBooks :: 1984 The TTL Data Book Vol 3
Topics: vcc, texas, min, max, output, voltage, outputs, instruments, temperature, input, texas instruments,...
From the bitsavers.org collectio n, a scanned-in computer-related document. ti :: dataBooks :: 1977 TI Bipolar Microcomputer Components Data Book
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ibm :: 43xx :: GC20-0001-3 370 4300bib Jan80
Topics: ibm, prog, program, system, guide, lic, logic, fdp, listings, microfiche, lic prog, prog prod,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ti :: dataBooks :: 1988 TTL Logic Standard TTL S LS Data Book
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. fujitsu :: Fujitsu Sales Prospector 1986
Topics: oem, systems, data, dec, ibm, bsm, computer, opt, vars, dist, oem oem, opt opt, bsm bsm, parallel...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ti :: dataBooks :: 1984 The TTL Data Book Vol 1
Topics: packages, logic, gnd, texas, pin, vcc, assignments, typical, output, instruments, pin assignments,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. fairchild :: dataBooks :: 1973 Fairchild Linear Integrated Circuits Data Catalog
Topics: voltage, input, output, current, temperature, supply, offset, fairchild, function, frequency, input...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ibm :: 1620 :: monitor :: 1620-PR-029 1620 Monitor II Listings and Flowcharts Version 2
Topics: tfm, btm, dorg, dsc, tdm, bnf, dsa, monitor, fortran, erm, blxm fmon, entry address, subroutines...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. borland :: borland C++ :: Borland C++ Version 5 Programmers Guide 1997
Topics: function, data, class, object, functions, type, borland, database, values, chapter, member...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ibm :: 370 :: RACF :: SC28-1343-1 Resource Access Control Facility Dec85
Topics: racf, data, set, exit, profile, user, command, macro, resource, system, data set, racf data, data...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ibm :: 1620 :: monitor :: 1620-PR-025 1620 Monitor I Listings and Flowcharts Jul63
Topics: tfm, dorg, dsc, btm, oorg, dsa, ooooo, fortran, tdm, bnf, dup routine, subroutines set, symbol...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. dec :: pdp8 :: handbooks :: Small Computer Handbook 1973
Topics: data, memory, dec, flag, program, instruction, interrupt, octal, device, data break, word count,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. derivationAndTabulationAssociates :: 1969 Transistor DATA Book 27ed
Topics: sod, cns, mota, ssi, tec, tub, tiif, rayn, sgsi, max, cns cns, sod sod, codes explained, ssi ssi,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. sds :: sigma :: diag :: 900898A FLOAT 704046A00 Mar68
Topics: oooooooo, pll, data, pio, ffffffff, clk, oocooooo, aaaaaaaa, ocoooooo, oooooooo oooooooo, pll pll,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. icMaster :: 1983 IC Master Volume 2
Topics: output, input, voltage, data, current, master, vcc, low, logic, supply, temperature range, access...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ti :: dataBooks :: The TTL Data Book Vol 1 1984
Topics: packages, logic, gnd, texas, pin, vcc, assignments, typical, output, instruments, pin assignments,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. ibm :: pc :: pc :: 1502234 PC Technical Reference Apr83
Topics: mov, data, adapter, byte, interrupt, mode, status, system, memory, mov mov, high intensity, fixed...
From the bitsavers.org collectio n, a scanned-in computer-related document. dataInc :: 1987 DATA Book Diodes Edition 54
Apple II reference manual from Apple Computer, 10260 Brandley Drive, Cupertino, CA 95014. Contents: Getting Started with your Apple II, Apple II Integer BASIC, Apple II Firmware, Apple II Hardware. Includes schematics and hardware maps. From a 2000 interview with Chris Espinosa conducted for the Stanford Library: "I was working for Jef Raskin, who with Brian Howard wrote the original Integer BASIC manual, when I went off to Berkeley in 1978. When I left, Jef gave me a task. He wanted to...
Topics: lda, program, dfb, jsr, apple, memory, sta, poke, epz, ldy, dfb dfb, machine language, basic...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. univOfPennsylvania :: eniac :: ENIAC Operating Manual Jun46
Topics: program, pulse, switch, terminals, accumulator, stepper, terminal, input, output, program pulse,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. cdc :: cyber :: nos :: FH4010-4C StudyDump Apr80
Topics: llll, opl, oplc, cyber, rec, pfm, oooooooooooooooooooo, cpumtr, cio, lfm, llll llll,...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. cdc :: military :: an ayk-14 :: G13693 AN AYK-14 Technical Description Jan80
Topics: channel, memory, module, control, iop, instruction, interrupt, ntds, word, computer, control...
From the bitsavers.org collectio n, a scanned-in computer-related document. datapro :: protocol conversion systems :: C23-631 Micom Micro7400
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. borland :: Eureka The Solver Owners Handbook 1987
Topics: eureka, file, equation, function, turbo, solver, solve, variables, handbook, commands, equation...
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document. borland :: Borland Turbo BASIC Owners Handbook 1987
Topics: turbo, basic, program, file, print, function, statement, string, numeric, returns, turbo basic,...
