Unauthorized adaptations of the game were published for the TI 99 / 4A ( as Arcturus ), Amstrad CPC ( as Zaxx ), BBC Micro ( as Fortress ), and the TRS-80 Color Computer ( as Zakssund ).

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

Prior to Red Hat, Young built a couple of computer rental and leasing businesses, including founding Vernon Computer Rentals in 1984.

Throughout the world there are many organizations and institutions dedicated to the area of computer and electronic music study and research, including the ICMA ( International Computer Music Association ), IRCAM, GRAME, SEAMUS ( Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States ), CEC ( Canadian Electroacoustic Community ), and a great number of institutions of higher learning around the world.

* Computer hacking, including the following types of activity:

In 1993, the USENIX Association gave a Lifetime Achievement Award ( Flame ) to the Computer Systems Research Group at University of California, Berkeley, honoring 180 individuals, including Muuss, who contributed to the CSRG's 4. 4BSD-Lite release.

For example, in the United Kingdom, a number of computer-industry magazines, including Computer Weekly and Computing, and in finance, Waters Magazine.

Mach 3 led to a number of efforts to port other operating systems parts for the microkernel, including IBM's Workplace OS and several efforts by Apple Computer to build a cross-platform version of the Mac OS.

* North Korea Uncovered, ( North Korea Google Earth ) See most of North Korea's communications facilities, including: The Korea Computer Center, the Pyongyang Television Tower, the KCBS tower, the major communications center in Heaju, as well as satellite communications stations near Pyongyang.

* Robotics, including directing manipulators, Computer numerical control.

Founded in 1989 by eleven companies ( including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, American Airlines and Data General ), OMG's initial focus was to create a heterogeneous distributed object standard.

* Living Computer Museum, a portal into the Paul Allen collection of timesharing and interactive computers, including an operational PDP-10 ( KL-10 )

* Computer graphics, including:

Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs, including " Yellow Magic ( Tong Poo )" ( 1978 ), " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), " Nice Age " ( 1980 ), " Ongaku " ( 1983 ), and " You've Got to Help Yourself " ( 1983 ), while playing the keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Rydeen " ( 1979 ), and singing in several songs such as " Kimi ni Mune Kyun " ( 1983 ).

Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( commonly initialised to SGI, historically sometimes referred to as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS ) was a manufacturer of high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and software, founded in 1981 by Jim Clark.

SGI was part of the Advanced Computing Environment initiative, formed in the early 1990s with 20 other companies, including Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation, MIPS Computer Systems, Groupe Bull, Siemens, NEC, NeTpower, Microsoft and Santa Cruz Operation.

Some 68k and MIPS-based models were also rebadged by other vendors, including CDC, Tandem Computers, Prime Computer and Siemens-Nixdorf.

Computer gamers have been able to successfully use trackballs in most modern computer games, including FPS, RPG, and RTS genres, with any slight loss of speed compensated for with an increase in precision.

Computer City was a supercenter concept featuring name-brand computers, software and related products ; by the end of 1993, Tandy had 40 locations, including three in Europe.

Some early computers in the USA also used the Williams tube, including the IAS machine ( originally designed for Selectron tube memory ), the UNIVAC 1103, Whirlwind, IBM 701, IBM 702 and the Standards Western Automatic Computer ( SWAC ).

* Computer-aided manufacturing ( CAM ) including instructions to Computer Numerical Control ( CNC ) machines

* Versions of OS-9 / 68K ran on a wide variety of 68000 family platforms, including the Sharp X68000 in Japan, some personal computers intended by their designers as upgrades from the Color Computer ( e. g., the 68070 and 68340-based MM / 1, and on other computers from Frank Hogg Laboratories, PEP Modular Computers, and Delmar Co .) It was also ported to the Atari ST by Recc-o-ware in the early 1990s, and was distributed by Cumana in Europe.

In the 1980s, CTW created a series of video games under the name of Children's Computer Workshop, including Cookie Monster Munch and Alpha Beam with Ernie.

* The availability by 1986 of sub -$ 1000 PC XT compatibles, including early offerings from Dell Computer, reducing demand for IBM's models.

Servers use those processors and other readily available non-x86 processor choices, including the Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC, Fujitsu SPARC64 III and later, SGI MIPS, Intel Itanium, Hewlett Packard PA-RISC, Hewlett-Packard ( merged with Compaq which acquired first Digital Equipment Corporation ) DEC Alpha, IBM POWER and Apple Computer PowerPC ( specifically G4 and G5 series, as well as earlier PowerPC 604 and 604e series ) processors.

( 1986 ) Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematics and Computer Sciences: The 1985-1986 Survey, Mathematical Association of America No. 7.

Morris himself became the first person tried and convicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.

# Volume E, Computer Modern Typefaces ( Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1986 ), xvi + 588pp.

Development on the Hurd began in 1990 after an abandoned kernel attempt in 1986, based on the research TRIX operating system developed by Professor Steve Ward and his group at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science ( LCS ).

Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 when the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) developed the Computer Science Network ( CSNET ) and again in 1986 when NSFNET provided access to supercomputer sites in the United States from research and education organizations.

* 1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

The earliest known citation on the Internet is from 1986 on Usenet in the signature of a poster from Convex Computer Corporation as "' I think there is a world market for about five computers ' — Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson ( Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines ), 1943 ".

* July 26 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Formed in 1986, it acquired ( and subsequently merged ) the Computer Film Company in 1997.

New Perspectives on Human – Computer Interaction ( 1986 )

It also resulted in the first conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Originally known as PCMCIA Card, short for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, the PC Card standard as well as its successors were defined and developed by the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association ( PCMCIA ), which itself was created by a number of computer industry companies in 1986 by Jacob D. Holm.

When the Apple IIGS computer was introduced by Apple Computer in September 1986, Apple also announced it would be making an upgrade kit for the IIe available for purchase.

The Center for Microelectronic and Computer Engineering was founded by RIT in 1986.

* Computer Chronicles: Parallel Processing ( 1986 ) Last Access 2010-11-20

Founded by George Lucas ' Lucasfilm in 1979 as a special-effects team, it was sold to Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs in 1986 due to Lucas's financial problems related to the failure of Howard the Duck.

The Homebrew Computer Club was an early computer hobbyist users ' group in Silicon Valley, which met ( under that name ) from March 5, 1975 to December 1986.

Since the 1986 marriage of Burroughs and Sperry, Unisys has metamorphosed from a computer manufacturer to a computer services and outsourcing firm, competing in the same marketplace as IBM, Electronic Data Systems ( EDS ), and Computer Sciences Corporation.

It was released near simultaneously for the Family Computer and arcade, and later released in America on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986.

One of the most important of them is the Computer Centre which started functioning in 1986 with facilities which have been continuously updated.

She earned her MBA from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts ( 1986 ) and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Bethany College in Mathematics / Computer Science ( 1976 ).

* December 1986: Ralf Burger presented the Virdem model of programs at a meeting of the underground Chaos Computer Club in Germany.