
history - What was the first desktop computer with fully-functional ...
Oct 21, 2023 · What was the first desktop computing system that satisfied the following features: It fully fit on desktop It included the full alpha-numeric keyboard It included a full text display, …
How exactly did Windows become the OS of the home PC?
May 5, 2020 · Like 1.0 it was a program for MS-DOS, so you had to start your computer into the MS-DOS command line and then load Windows up separately. Windows 3.0 (1990) was the …
First computer emulator in Windows - Retrocomputing Stack …
I am quite sure it was the first ZX Spectrum emulation developed specifically for the Microsoft Windows 3.11/95 API - (or any previous Windows versions before that) Can I claim at least, it …
Newest 'price' Questions - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
Jan 29, 2022 · I wrote my first computer programs in HP-Basic on a HP-85 desktop computer. The year was 1980 and we stored our programs on special "high-speed" cassette tapes.
80286 pricing and availability - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
Jul 9, 2018 · Most information online states that the 80286 (or iAPX 286 as it was initially known) was first available in February 1982. But information about it from this time is hard to come by, …
history - Was there a clearly identifiable "first computer" to use or ...
Nov 7, 2019 · Before the introduction of the personal computer, mainframe computers were the norm. The IBM System/370 mainframe computer, introduced in 1970, was one of the first …
When was the term ‘directory’ replaced by ‘folder’?
Jan 17, 2023 · When computers first gained a GUI, there were analogies abound. The workspace was called a Desktop, deleted files would go in the Trash or Recycle Bin, and files were …
Did this analogue computer from 1960 really have Internet?
Mar 7, 2020 · Does this in any way have something to do with Internet or any other kind of network? In the Wikipedia article, it says is was the first desktop computer, used by NSA.
How big is a mainframe? - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
Jan 25, 2019 · If you read about the history of computing, you'll hear how the first computers were "huge". You will often come across assertions that in the early days of commercial computing, …
british computers - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
May 26, 2020 · FWIW, Australia's first computer, CSIRAC, was the 5th stored-program computer in the world, and is now the oldest electronic computer that still exists. Apparently it was the …