* BBC Domesday Project, a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme, to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th century census of England.

A study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior was conducted between 1992 and 1994 surveying first-year college students across various countries.

This effort, carried out initially by the NIH's Advisory Committee on Computers in Research ( ACCR ), chaired by Lusted, spent over $ 40 million between 1960 and 1964 in order to establish dozens of large and small biomedical research centers in the US.

Computers in close proximity may be connected by wires directly between their interface cards.

eMachines employed about 135 employees and sold between 1 to 2 million computers each year before its purchase on January 30, 2004, by rival Gateway Computers.

* TC 9: Relationship between Computers and Society

For example, Paul N. Edwards shows in his book " The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America " the strong relations between the political discourse of the Cold War and the computer designs of this era.

Users are frequently confused by the differences between My Network Places, Workgroup Computers ( the former Network Neighborhood ) and Network Connections.

A prominent computing scientist, E. W. Dijkstra, wrote in a paper that the coining of the term software engineer was not useful since it was an inappropriate analogy, " The existence of the mere term has been the base of a number of extremely shallow — and false — analogies, which just confuse the issue ... Computers are such exceptional gadgets that there is good reason to assume that most analogies with other disciplines are too shallow to be of any positive value, are even so shallow that they are only confusing.

Computers often responded to bad input with an error message on the same order of utility as " does not compute ", although self-destruction was an unlikely result from bad inputs or insoluble problems fed into the computer.

Computers ( and computors ), models of computation: A computer ( or human " computor ") is a restricted type of machine, a " discrete deterministic mechanical device " that blindly follows its instructions.

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

The remarkable thing about this process is that after the AAUS workshop the opposition to Dive Computer crumbled, numerous new models were introduced, the technology dramatically improved and Dive Computers became, virtually overnight, the standard pieces of diving equipment that they are today.

* The HEC ( Hollerith Electronic Computer ), built by the British Tabulating Machine Company ( later to become International Computers and Tabulators ( ICT ), then International Computers Limited ( ICL )), a commercial machine sold in several models and later known as the BTM1200 series.

For example, an advanced mathematics course in Computers in Medicine and Biology requires a student to construct two computer models selected from the following list: circulation, gas exchange in the lung, control of cell volume, and the renal countercurrent mechanism.

In 2006, AnaLogic Computers developed their Bi-I Ultra High Speed Smart Camera product line, which includes the ACE 4K processor in their high-end models.

Computers and communication equipment represent characters using a character encoding that assigns each character to something — an integer quantity represented by a sequence of bits, typically — that can be stored or transmitted through a network.

While waiting for the Model 65M to arrive, UM Computing Center personnel were able to perform early time-sharing experiments using an IBM S / 360-50 that was funded by the ARPA CONCOMP ( Conversational Use of Computers ) Project.

The OS was originally developed by Acorn Computers for use with their 1987 range of Archimedes personal computers using the Acorn RISC Machine processors.

Computers using that architecture are still in production as the Unisys ClearPath Libra servers which run an evolved but compatible version of the MCP operating system first introduced with the B6700.

Computers using vacuum tubes were called the first generation ; transistors and diodes, the second ; integrated circuits, the third ; and those using microprocessors, the fourth.

Computers dramatically changed the industry and today many cartoonists and illustrators create digital illustrations using computers, graphics tablets, and scanners.

Computers using the 68000 family but not equipped with the hardware floating point processor could trap and emulate the floating-point instructions in software, which, although slower, allowed one binary version of the program to be distributed for both cases.

In the industry of personal computers ( then more commonly known as " Home Computers "), the most common use was small businesses generating solicitations using boilerplate form letters and mailing lists.

# Computers using classic Mac OS can connect to AFP 3. x servers, with some limitations.

Computers can connect to a domain easily via LAN, or via WAN using a VPN connection.

Walt Disney Feature Animation, whose parent company later purchased Pixar in 2006, used dozens of the Pixar Image Computers for CAPS and was using them in production up through Pocahontas in 1995.

Aardvark is a computer game for the Atari 8-bit Computers, Commodore 64 and Commodore 16 in which the player must collect ant larva using the snout of an aardvark.

Competitors have included CSPI using Myrinet, and SKY Computers using InfiniBand.

Computers emulate logic devices by making measurements of switch inputs, calculating a logic function from these measurements and then sending the results out to electronically-controlled switches.

Computers commonly provide direct, efficient access to the program's global variables and to the local variables of only the current innermost procedure or function, the topmost stack frame.

Bryant, Graph-based algorithms for Boolean function manipulation, IEEE Transactions on Computers., C-35, pp. 677 – 691, 1986.

This was quickly remedied by First Byte Computers who developed an interface and software which allowed a " switched " joystick to be used with the majority of software titles.

Each fall he teaches a course called " Computers in Our World ", which introduces the fundamentals of computing to non-majors.

Computers such as the ENIAC had to be physically rewired to perform different tasks, which caused these machines to be called " fixed-program computers.

The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japanese branch were I. R. M Corporation founded on May 30, 1979, as well as its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines.

Computers are also widely used as a tool with which to study cognitive phenomena.

Computers can use software to generate sounds, which are then passed through a digital-to-analog convertor ( DAC ) to a loudspeaker system.

Hewlett-Packard sells its unique NonStop systems, which it acquired with Tandem Computers and which some analysts classify as mainframes.

Computers may however communicate over a telephone line by means of modems, which are representing the digital bits by tones, called symbols.

Products became available ( from companies such as Happy Computers ) which replaced the controller BIOS in Atari's " smart " drives.

In June 1999 Fujitsu's historical connection with Siemens was revived, when the two companies agreed to merge their European computer operations into a new 50: 50 joint venture called Fujitsu Siemens Computers, which became the world's fifth-largest computer manufacturing company.

The Tesco Computers for Schools scheme later changed partnership from Acorn to RM plc and many other computer-related suppliers, which also led to the decrease of the Archimedes ' educational market share.

* VME / T, which was never actually launched, but warrants a mention as it was conceived to support " fault tolerance ", and predated the efforts of the successful American startup company Tandem Computers in this area.

By the time the bill became law in 1967, Benn had been promoted to Minister of Technology, which included responsibility for the development of Concorde and the formation of International Computers Ltd.

In its first years it overshadowed the Nintendo Entertainment System but wasn't as successful as the Atari ST and Amiga 500 Personal Computers, which were mostly used as gaming machines.

On top of headlining the festival, the band personally chose all of the bands who appeared, some of which included other punk bands such as The Bouncing Souls, The Menzingers, Red City Radio, The Computers, and The Skints.

Acorn Computers Ltd implemented a 1200 baud variation of CUTS in their BBC Micro and Acorn Electron microcomputers, which reduced a ' 0 ' bit to one cycle of a 1200 Hz sine wave and a ' 1 ' bit to two cycles of a 2400 Hz wave.

Acorn Computers CEO, Stan Boland said " There is not a big enough market for the PC ( Risc PC 2 ), which is largely for home use and games.

Its design was heavily influenced by work on the Modula-2 + language in use at SRC and at the Acorn Computers Research Center ( ARC, later ORC when Olivetti bought out Acorn ) at the time, which was the language in which the operating system for the DEC Firefly multiprocessor VAX workstation was written and in which the Acorn Compiler for Acorn Modula-2 Extended Language ( CAMEL ) at ARC for the ARX operating system project of ARM based Acorn Archimedes range of computers were written.

It weighed 700 lb ( 318 kg ), cost ( US ) $ 100, 000 and up, and is believed to have had processor speeds of about 2 MHz and 8 MHz for its two processors, which in 1983 was faster than the " Personal Computers " on the market.

Claris did, however, finally agree to license the AppleWorks trademark to Quality Computers, which released AppleWorks 4. 0 in 1993 and AppleWorks 5. 0 in 1994.

Computers have also been used to carry out perturbation theory calculations to extraordinarily high levels of precision, which has proven important in particle physics for generating theoretical results that can be compared with experiment.