Title :
Guest Editorial: Window on the 80´s
Author :
Isaacson, P. ; Juliussen
Author_Institution :
Electronic Data Systems Corporation
Abstract :
• In 1978 Radio Shack was the 44th largest computer company in the US.1• One model of kitchen blender contains one thousand bytes of memory. • The week before Christmas, department stores sold more computers in toys than are presently found in data processing centers worldwide.
Keywords :
Application software; Data processing; Data systems; Disk drives; Instruments; Microelectronics; Semiconductor device manufacture; Special issues and sections; Technological innovation;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.1980.1653334
