Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Personal Computing: Historical Beginnings

Personal Computing: Historical Beginnings Tube. Duration : 104.55 Mins.


[Recording Date: 5 November 2008] The roots of the PC - that is, machines that are not shared between users - enough to at least end of 1950. Within a decade, many more of these "a machine, a user", computers have been developed, and the idea of ​​a user who has direct control over the computer has been determined, at least in science. In 1968, the young computer scientist Alan Kay made a presentation about the FLEX machine was at a meeting of students and computer science has seenEarly versions of the development of a new flat panel plasma display technology. This led to discussions about how nice it would be nice (one day) out the FLEX same computer on the back of a display for a notebook size. A visit from a few months later to do a computer scientist and educator Seymour Papert of MIT and a school with children with advanced math Papert's LOGO programming language, has produced an epiphany for Kay. He decided to make a "personal computer for children of all ages."This was to be in the form of a compact notebook with both tablet and keyboard, flat panel displays, GUI, and the creation of wireless networks that funding for defense agency began ARPA experience. This idea has the name "Dynabook," a tribute to what the printed book in the civilization and learning has led to better results. There is also a gesture, a future where not only the contents of the "books" will be dynamic, but the proportion of people with computers will also change. L '...

Keywords: Computer, History, Museum, Kay, Notebook, Laptop, PARC, Thacker, Jepsen, Dynabook

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