Learning the A-P-C of computer hardware
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Personal computers, IBM PCs and PC-compatibles using the same processor chips are available from many different manufacturers. There are also non-PC computers such as Acorn, Amiga, Apple, Atari and Amstrad, which are not compatible with PCs. They use Motorola microprocessor technology and have individual operating systems, whereas PCs use the Intel microprocessor chips and MS-Dos operating system. The non-PCs are popular as home computers as they originated as games computers, but they also have home office software.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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Tune in with a new-look ELViS
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Entry Level Video System (ELViS) cards are printed circuit boards which plug into personal computers to integrate live or pre-recorded television or video with computers. Progress will provide scanning of news programmes, recording interesting features and creating educational databases. City brokers can use video cards instead of televisions to display news instantly in a section of dealers' screens. Prices are falling to below 500 pounds sterling in 1992.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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The Apple of the fashionable user's eye
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The Apple Macintosh computer was fashionable with 'chip-lit' users who used it mainly for writing and desktop publishing. Sound, networking and SCSI are built in. Microsoft introduced the Windows 3.1 which provides a graphical user interface as well as the Dos operating system. The Apple range has widened incomprehensibly and Apple has a deal with IBM to produce the PowerPC in 1994. It will run Mac and Windows applications.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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