NATS 1775 Lecture 17: Unit 16 - Communication Technologies Part 4
25 Jan 2019
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Idea of skilled amateur: pursues activity outside of his or her regular occupation for no monetary compensation and has higher than average technical skills and knowledge than average user. Hobbyists, minicomputers and timesharing: many hobbyists were influenced by work of j. c. r. Desktop computer at the time: these industrialists believed that computer industry would continue to be dominated by large mainframe computers hooked up to telecom systems that would be used in. The altair: while hobbyists did have access to microprocessor chips like intel"s 8008 series (scelbi- 8h, mark-8), the powerful 8080 chip was not readily available to them: 8080 was eight-bit chip that needed fewer support chips (6 compared to 20) and contained more memory than 8008; however, each cost . Electronics; believed basic would be ideal language because it was easy to learn: neither man owned altair, but created basic by programming dec computer to mimic.
