Sentence examples for microcomputer from inspiring English sources

This was despite a now-thwarted effort to impose a compulsory 15-minute waiting time on all drivers to protect the city's licensed taxis.In 1984 Mitterrand was so inspired by Jobs that his government promised a microcomputer in every French school.

Gary Kildall developed the first operating system for a microcomputer as part of a project he contracted with Intel several years before the release of the Altair.

When IBM eventually decided to enter the microcomputer business in 1980, it called on Microsoft for both a programming language and an operating system, and the small partnership was on its way to becoming the largest software company in the world.

For the first time, an established company with extensive distribution channels would be selling a microcomputer.

Later, when a few microcomputer companies had emerged from among the hobbyists and entrepreneurs inspired by MITS, a company called IMSAI realized that an operating system would attract more software to its machine, and it chose CP/M.

Tandy Corporation, best known for its chain of Radio Shack stores, had followed the development of MITS and decided to enter the market with its own TRS-80 microcomputer, which came with four kilobytes of memory, a Z80 microprocessor, a BASIC programming language, and cassettes for data storage.

Wozniak also became involved with the Homebrew Computer Club, a San Francisco Bay area group centred around the Altair 8800 microcomputer do-it-yourself kit, which was based on one of the world's first microprocessors, the Intel Corporation 8080, released in 1975.

During the 1970s the floppy disk a small, flexible disk was introduced for use in personal computers and other microcomputer systems.

The appearance of microcomputer-based publishing systems has proved to be another significant advance.

Every detail of its operations enough to permit anyone who wishes to program it on a microcomputer is widely available in published form and on the Internet.

Every detail of its operations enough to permit anyone who wished to program it on a microcomputer was widely available in published form and on the Internet.