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21Apple II peripheral cards — One of the early strengths of the Apple II line, and one of the most important factors contributing to its success, was its open architecture, epitomized by its generous number of internal expansion card slots, or simply expansion slots. These… …
22Tandy 1000 — The Tandy 1000 was the first in a line of more or less IBM PC compatible home computer systems produced by the Tandy Corporation for sale in its Radio Shack chain of stores. OverviewThe Tandy 1000 was followed by a series of models which appended …
23Atari 8-bit family — The Atari 8 bit family is a series of 8 bit home computers manufactured from 1979 to 1992. All are based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU and were the first home computers designed with custom coprocessor chips, giving them the most powerful… …
24MicroVAX — 3600 The MicroVAX was a family of low end minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The first model, the MicroVAX I, was introduced in 1984. The MicroVAX family used processors that implemented the VAX… …
25Power-on self-test — (POST) is the common term for a computer, router or printer s pre boot sequence. The same basic sequence is present on all computer architectures. It is the first step of the more general process called initial program load (IPL), booting, or… …
26PlayStation 2 — Infobox VG system title = PlayStation 2 manufacturer = Sony Computer Entertainment family = PlayStation type = Video game console generation = Sixth generation era (128 bit era) lifespan = vgrelease|JP=March 4, 2000vgrelease|NA=October 26, 2000 [ …
27computers — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Electronic data processors Nouns 1. computer, analog or digital computer, CISC or RISC computer, workstation, supercomputer, mainframe, minicomputer, microcomputer, personal computer, PC, Macintosh, IBM… …
28Sound card — A Sound Blaster Live! Value card, a typical (circa 2000) PCI sound card. Connects to Motherboard via one of: PCI ISA USB IEEE 139 …
29Workstation — Sun SPARCstation 1+, 25 MHz RISC processor from early 1990s A workstation is a high end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a… …
30DEC Firefly — The Firefly was a shared memory asymmetric multiprocessor workstation, developed by the Systems Research Center, a research organization within Digital Equipment Corporation. The first version built contained up to seven MicroVAX 78032… …
