• DocumentCode
    1368429
  • Title

    Personal computers: Fewer developments hut nevertheless important ones mark a year characterized by less-than-expected growth

  • Author

    Zorpette, Glenn

  • Author_Institution
    IEEE Spectrum, New York, NY, USA
  • Volume
    23
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1986
  • Firstpage
    40
  • Lastpage
    42
  • Abstract
    While growth in 1985 was considered disappointing, it is pointed out that important local area networks were announced by AT&T and IBM for linking personal computers and larger systems. However, as 1985 drew to a close, neither network was available commercially. Several new mass-storage systems appeared, including internal, high-speed hard-disk drives for the Macintosh and IBM personal computers, and the first read-only memories based on optical disks.
  • Keywords
    DP industry; microcomputers; American Telephone and Telegraph; CD ROM; IBM; Macintosh; computer industry trends; high-speed hard-disk drives; local area networks; mass-storage systems; optical disks; personal computers; read-only memories; Hardware; Industries; Marketing and sales; Microcomputers; Operating systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.1986.6370960
  • Filename
    6370960
    • Link To Document
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