DocumentCode
971315
Title
Digital´s personal computers
Author
Olsen, Kenneth H. ; Folsom, Barry James ; Ham, Ronald J. ; Clarke, John D.
Author_Institution
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA, USA
Volume
72
Issue
3
fYear
1984
fDate
3/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
283
Lastpage
299
Abstract
Digital Equipment Corporation´s three series of personal computers have been designed to meet different types of application needs of business and technical users. Common ergonomic concepts were applied in designing two sizes of system units, the keyboard, and CRT monitors used with all three series. The hard-ware architecture of each series was established to attain its specific operating and performance goals at acceptable cost and unit size. Making use of the computers´ inherent expandability, there have been major hardware upgrades--in memory, mass storage, and graphics capability in particular--since their introduction. Software upgrades have included implementation of additional industry-standard operating systems with modifications for optimum performance.
Keywords
Application software; Cathode ray tubes; Computer architecture; Computer displays; Computer graphics; Costs; Ergonomics; Hardware; Keyboards; Microcomputers;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Proceedings of the IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9219
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/PROC.1984.12860
Filename
1457128
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