The conservation profession response to this report was on the whole less than favourable, the Institute of Conservation ( ICON ) published their response under the title " A Failure of Vision ".

One of first widespread uses of the QNX real-time OS ( RTOS ) was in the non-embedded world, when it was selected as the operating system for the Ontario education system's own computer design, the Unisys ICON.

Despite the development of the ICON program, equality among schools was not assured because each school community could afford different capital outlays depending on the parents ' affluence.

The ICON system was based on a workstation / file server model, with no storage local to the workstations.

The ICON was originally designed to let teachers create and share their own lessonware, using a simple hypertext-based system where pages could either link to other pages or run programs written in " C ".

The " anyone can create lessonware " model was rejected by the Ministry of Education before the ICON shipped ( in favour of a model where the Ministry funded and controlled all lessonware ), leaving the ICON with only the QNX command line interface and the Cemcorp-developed text editor application.

Though prototyped in 1983, the first version of Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments ( CSILE ) was installed in 1986 on a small network of Cemcorp ICON computers, at an elementary school in Toronto, Canada.

During the summer of 1986, the IBM PC version of WATFOR-77 was adapted to run on the Unisys ICON which ran the QNX operating system.

He was the 1997 recipient of the Minnie Pearl Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2007 recipient of the first ICON Award presented by the Nashville Associations of Talent Directors.

He also was a special guest at the OC ICON / IDOL finales in Long Beach, California on the 19 September 2009, were he performed " Bright Lights ", " Don't Fail Me ", and " Turn Around ".

Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.

Her ICON computer fiasco drained millions from the provincial

Around this time other platforms, such as the Waterloo PORT networking system, gained approval for the government support that had originally been the province of the ICON.

The Ministry ceased all support for the ICON in 1994, and Archives Ontario declined to take ICON hardware and copies of the ICON software, which were destroyed.

Helicon Systems also produced a MIDI interface for the original ICON.

A list of alternative fumigants is available for goods imported from Europe ( known as the ICON database ), where methyl bromide fumigation has been banned.

In the mid 1980s Watcom developed compilers for the Unisys ICON computers running the QNX operating system.

As the anticipation builds for the opening of its teaching and research hotel, Hotel ICON, in early 2011, the School expects ever-enhanced levels of excellence in the years ahead.

ResEdit included standard editors for window templates (' WIND '), menus (' MENU '), dialog boxes, controls (' CNTL '), color palettes (' clut ' and ' pltt '), icons (' ICON ', ' cicn ', ' ICN #'), and various other standard types.

* There is support for most common image formats: BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, Windows Media Photo, GIF, and ICON.

The basic ICON design had reached " beta quality " after just over a year, using off the shelf parts, the hardware manufactured by Microtel and operating system from Quantum Software Systems.

* The Burroughs ICON Computer by Anthony William Anjo

Bernie Hou has been a featured guest at the MoCCA, ICON and UberCon comic conventions and has been interviewed by Wizard magazine.

They were also known as the CEMCorp ICON, Burroughs ICON, and finally Unisys ICON when Burroughs and Sperry Corporation merged to form Unisys in 1986.

At the time, only the ICON met the GEMS requirements, which cut its purchase price from around $ 2500 to a mere $ 495 ($ 2700 /$ 696 USD ) -- less expensive than most existing microcomputers.

Several generations of ICON machines were produced, evolving steadily to become more and more PC-like.

Several upgrades were introduced into the ICON line over time.

The original ICON workstations were housed in a large wedge-shaped steel case, with a full-sized keyboard mounted slightly left-of-center and a trackball mounted to the right.

Unlike the PET's floppy system, however, users of the ICON used Unix commands to copy data to their personal floppy disks from its " natural " location in the user's home directory on the hard drive.

* Ivor Goodson and John Marshal Mangan, " Computer Studies as Symbolic and Ideological Action: The Genealogy of the ICON ", Taylor & Francis, 1998, ISBN 0-7507-0727-5 ( originally published in Curriculum Journal, Volume 3 Issue 3 ( Autumn 1992 ), pg.

* OLD-COMPUTERS. COM Museum-Unisys ICON

* ICON Health & Fitness – Touted as the world's largest developer, manufacturer, and marketer of fitness equipment.

There was only one possible answer, but Jack's horrified mind refused to believe it until he had fed the radar plots of the skiff's course into the computer.

It is worth mentioning that the Nepōhualtzintzin amounted to the rank from 10 to the 18 in floating point, which calculated stellar as well as infinitesimal amounts with absolute precision, meant that no round off was allowed, when translated into modern computer arithmetic.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of " algorithm " and " computation " with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.

The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage.

It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, a design for a mechanical computer.

The Apple I's built-in computer terminal circuitry was distinctive.

As Wozniak was the only person who could answer most customer support questions about the computer, the company offered Apple I owners discounts and trade-ins for Apple IIs to persuade them to return their computers, contributing to their scarcity.

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.

The computer was brought to Polytechnic University of Turin where it was fixed and used to run the BASIC programming language .</ li >

The computer was designated an IEEE Milestone in 1990.

Atanasoff and Clifford Berry's computer work was not widely known until it was rediscovered in the 1960s, amidst conflicting claims about the first instance of an electronic computer.

At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

The machine was, however, the first to implement three critical ideas that are still part of every modern computer:

George W. Snedecor, the head of Iowa State's Statistics Department, was very likely the first user of an electronic digital computer to solve real world mathematics problems.

ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.

The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities.