• 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