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The planar process was developed by Noyce's colleague Jean Hoerni in early 1959, based on the silicon surface passivation and thermal oxidation processes developed by Mohamed M. Atalla at Bell Labs in the late 1950s. [ 4][ 5][ 6] Computers using IC chips began to appear in the early 1960s.
The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.
There are a number of other companies (AMD, Microchip, Altera, etc) making specialized chipsets as part of other ICs, and they are not often found in PC hardware (laptop, desktop or server). There are also a number of now defunct companies (like 3com, DEC, SGI) that produced network related chipsets for us in general computers.
Vintage computer. Altair and IMSAI computers with drives. A vintage computer is an older computer system that is largely regarded as obsolete. The personal computer has been around since approximately 1971. [1] But in that time, numerous technological revolutions have left generations of obsolete computing equipment on the junk heap.
Homebuilt computer. List of home computers by video hardware classified by video interface. List of computers running CP/M contains a list of personal computers running CP/M. These were usually intended for small office use. List of Soviet computer systems includes many "home" systems as well as office and "big iron" systems.
Access Database Engine (formerly known as Jet Database Engine) Proprietary. Actian Zen (PSQL) (formerly known as Pervasive PSQL) Proprietary. Adabas D. Proprietary. Airtable. Proprietary. Altibase.
22 May. Japan. The game Pac-Man was released. [ 1] June. United States. (US) Commodore released the VIC-20, which had 3.5 KB of usable memory and was based on the MOS Technology 6502 processor. Magazines became available which contained the code for various utilities and games.
PC Ace. Personal Computer News (United Kingdom) Popular Computing Weekly (United Kingdom) The One. The Rainbow. RUN. SunWorld, about Sun Microsystems computers (United States) UnixWorld, about Unix operating system (United States) Verbum, desktop publishing and computer art focused magazine of the 1990s.