The Government Machine : A Revolutionary History of the Computer
The Government Machine : A Revolutionary History of the Computer. Jon Agar
Published Date: 24 Jan 2019
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Original Languages: English
Format: Paperback::564 pages
ISBN10: 026253388X
Publication City/Country: Cambridge, Mass., United States
Imprint: MIT Press
Dimension: 152x 229x 24mm::748.43g
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Slater memorized the details of the textile machinery and smuggled them with MITS co-founder Ed Roberts invented the Altair 8800 which sold for $297, or $395 with a case and coined the term personal computer.The machine came with 256 tes of memory (expandable to 64 KB) and an open 100-line bus structure that evolved into the S-100 standard widely used in hobist and personal computers of this era Jon Agar. The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2003. 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