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  • ...‎]] at the electrical level, with an [[Non Return to Zero|NRZ]] encoding system; the closely related descendant [[EIA RS-422 serial line interface]] uses [ ...PC's therefore standardized on DE-9 connectors, following the lead of the IBM PC-AT, which first used them. DE-9 connectors are now officially part of th
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  • [[Image:rx01.jpg|250px|thumb|left|An RX01 floppy drive system]] ...pies.) Data was protected with a [[CRC]], compatible with that used by the IBM 3740.
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  • '''DECtape''' was a low-cost, low-capacity tape [[magnetic storage]] system intended for storage of small data entities (e.g. programs). It used 3/4-inch wide [[magnetic tape]] on small 4-inch reels, formatted before use i
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  • ...led or removed in a drive, in a process called '''mounting''' a pack. So a system could have multiple packs (for backup purposes, or for infrequently needed In the late 1960's, IBM developed a new form of disk, the [[floppy disk]], which used instead a 'pl
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  • | name = IBM 709 | operating system = SOS, IBSYS, IBJOB
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  • ...ystem''' (usually '''CTSS''', for short) was a ground-breaking [[operating system]], the first [[time-sharing]] OS to be used in service. ...], the [[batch operating system]] previously run on the [[IBM 7090]] and [[IBM 7094]] [[mainframe]] computers on which CTSS ran.
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  • ...r supplied power to the computer, which had the keyboard and a cassette or 3" floppy disk drive built in. ...LocoScript word-processor. The other side booted into CP/M-Plus (CP/M-80 3.0). Initial models shipped with a dedicated dot matrix printer and later m
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  • They made their own operating system, [[FOONEX]], for their machines. It was based on [[TENEX]]. ...esign. It was built at [[III]] for use in a optical character recognition system. It was bought by Omnibus for generating computer graphics.
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  • ...604 Electronic Calculating Punch''' was [[International Business Machines|IBM]]'s first major foray into [[electronic]] computing. (It was preceded by th ...'school' IBM in manufacturing and supporting electronic gear; all previous IBM products had been electro-mechanical.
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  • IBM licensed [[Microsoft]]'s [[BASIC]] for the [[IBM PC]] despite already having its own version for the company's mainframes. D == IBM Cassette BASIC ==
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  • ...System V, Release 3''' was released in 1987. The final version was Release 3.2 in 1988. * Remote File System (RFS)
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  • ...successors. The history of how PC-DOS came to be the principal [[Operating System]] for the PC is a story that has been told many times and a I will supply l ...splays on boot as The IBM Personal Computer DOS Version 1.00 (C) Copyright IBM Corp 1981. Unlike the 1.00 release it does not ask for the date and this is
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  • ...return point, on the top of the stack. Two special elements of [[run-time system|run-time support]], csv and cret, set up and tear down the [[stack frame]] to use 3 REGISTER variables?) It then does (of all idiotic things) a
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  • ...dd necessary features, such as [[virtual memory]], to the [[IBM System/360|System 360]]. ! Limitation !! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Mode
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  • ...Tandy 1000 on the other hand was designed to be PC compatible (actually [[IBM PCjr]] compatible) from the beginning. ...mple speaker, what if they utilized the PCjr 16 color 320x200 graphics and 3 voice sound? So the Tandy 1000 was born, released in November of 1984. The
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  • | operating system = [[MS-DOS]] 3.2, [[Deskmate]] II | operating system = [[MS-DOS]] 3.3, [[Deskmate]] 3
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  • [[DEC]] used a 3-character code to uniquely designate its software products. 061 | CP/M-86/80 OPERATING SYSTEM
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  • ...' was the name adopted by two separate efforts to run [[UNIX]] on an [[IBM System/370]] class machine. ...ased approach was successful, and Bell ran the result on a number of large System/370 machines.
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  • ...rageWorks''' is a modular [[Small Computer System Interface|SCSI]] storage system manufactured and sold by [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] in the 1990s [[File:3.5 Inch SBB photo.png|thumb|150px|right|3.5" SBB]]
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  • IBM Personal System/2 Model 60 IBM Personal System/2 Model 60 combines high performance with high capacity, making it an excel
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