* 1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

It was not until the 1940s that the first general-purpose computers were actually built.

The Amiga was one of the first home computers for which inexpensive sound sampling and video digitization accessories were available.

The first digital computers used machine-language programming to set up and access array structures for data tables, vector and matrix computations, and for many other purposes.

AIX PS / 2, first released in 1989, ran on IBM PS / 2 personal computers with Intel 386 and compatible processors.

FriendlyNet was first introduced on the Quadra 700 and Quadra 900 computers, and used across much of the Mac line for some time.

The very first of the ready made computers were sold with the " kit " versions of the euro cards, the version with redesigned cards came a month or so later.

Shortly after World War II, the first general purpose computers became available.

is an arcade game by Taito, first released in 1986 and later ported to numerous home computers and game consoles.

EDVAC, one of the first stored program computers

However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious machine was probably first discussed by Ada Lovelace, in a set of notes written in 1842 about the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, a precursor ( never built ) to modern electronic computers.

The limited memory capacity of early computers led to substantial technical challenges when designing the first compilers.

– Comparison of the first computers, with a chapter about Colossus and its reconstruction by Tony Sale.

Some of these technologies include speech recognition software to allow computers to handle first level of customer support, text mining and natural language processing to allow better customer handling, agent training by automatic mining of best practices from past interactions, support automation and many other technologies to improve agent productivity and customer satisfaction.

American counterculture exponents like William S. Burroughs ( whose literary influence on Gibson and cyberpunk in general is widely acknowledged ) and Timothy Leary were among the first to extoll the potential of computers and computer networks for individual empowerment.

The first mainframe computers, using firstly vacuum tubes and later transistors in the logic circuits, appeared in the 1940s and 1950s.

Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the first company to legally reverse-engineer IBM Personal Computer.

It was Compaq's first non-portable computer and began the Compaq Deskpro line of computers.

Doom was not the first first-person shooter with a deathmatch mode — Maze War was a multiplayer FPS in 1973, and by 1977 was running over ethernet on Xerox computers.

One of the first digital video products to run on personal computers was PACo: The PICS Animation Compiler from The Company of Science & Art in Providence, RI, which was developed starting in 1990 and first shipped in May 1991.

While low-quality at first, consumer digital video increased rapidly in quality, first with the introduction of playback standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 ( adopted for use in television transmission and DVD media ), and then the introduction of the DV tape format allowing recording direct to digital data and simplifying the editing process, allowing non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) to be deployed cheaply and widely on desktop computers with no external playback / recording equipment needed.

This new office will focus on the boundary between general-purpose computers and the physical world, such as sensors, displays and the first few layers of specialized signal-processing that couple these modules to standard computer interfaces.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

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

The next session of Congress produced a second Reconstruction Act to further implement the first with specific voting regulations, which the President vetoed and Congress overrode.

How to design and implement a stripped-down version of an interpreter for the BASIC language was covered in articles by Allison in the first three quarterly issues of the People's Computer Company newsletter published in 1975 and implementations with source code published in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Tiny BASIC Calisthenics & Orthodontia: Running Light without Overbyte.

Because of this incident, authorities found it necessary, in the months following, to implement a policy against announcing victims ’ names until after families had first been informed.

In the 1870s, Anheuser-Busch became the first American brewery to implement pasteurization, which greatly improved the shelf-life and transportability of its beers.

The first negotiated cease-fire with the M-19 ended when the guerrillas resumed fighting in 1985, claiming that the cease-fire had not been fully respected by official security forces, saying that several of its members had suffered threats and assaults, and also questioning the government's real willingness to implement any accords.

Bengals quarterback Virgil Carter would be the first player to successfully implement Walsh's system, leading the NFL in pass completion percentage in 1971.

It was one of the first agencies in the U. S. to implement the painting of centerlines on highways statewide ( thanks to June McCarroll ); the first to build a freeway west of the Mississippi ( the Pasadena Freeway ); the first to build a four-level stack interchange ; the first to develop and deploy nonreflective raised pavement markers, better known as Botts ' dots ; and one of the first to implement dedicated freeway-to-freeway connector ramps for high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

( For example, in computations, it is often convenient to only implement a fast Fourier transform corresponding to one transform direction and then to get the other transform direction from the first.

Ken Thompson's versions of qed were the first to implement regular expressions, an idea that had previously been formalized in a mathematical paper, which Ken Thompson had read.

Different types of heaps implement the operations in different ways, but notably, insertion is often done by adding the new element at the end of the heap in the first available free space.

If an RFC is part of a proposal that is on the Standard Track, then at the first stage, the standard is proposed and subsequently organizations decide whether to implement this Proposed Standard.

The Institute helped develop, and was the first entity to implement, Voice Over Internet Protocol ( VOIP ).

By extending the 16 / 24-bit IBM PC / AT standard into a natively 32-bit computing environment, Compaq became the first third party to implement a major technical hardware advance on the PC platform.

The first integrated circuit to implement the draft of what was to become IEEE 754-1985 was the Intel 8087.

It evolved into one of the first peer-to-peer network architectures, thus transforming DEC into a networking powerhouse in the 1980s.

It was one of the first implemented architectures for software components.

It was one of the first massively scalable Internet architectures for media delivery.

The early implementations of SPARC and MIPS ( two of the first commercial RISC architectures ) used single direction static branch prediction: they always predicted that a conditional jump would not be taken, so they always fetched the next sequential instruction.

This was one of the first architectures implemented into a LIMS, having the advantage of providing higher processing speeds ( because processing is done on the client and not the server ) and slightly more security ( as access to the server data is limited only to those with client software ).

Neoclassical architectures along the Canal date to 18th century: during the first half was built San Simeone Piccolo, with an impressive corinthian portico, central plan and a high copper-covered dome ending in a cupola shaped as a temple.

The first open-source compiler which implemented coarrays as specified in the Fortran 2008 standard for Linux architectures is G95.

Some computer architectures still reserve the beginning of address space for other purposes, though ; for instance, Intel x86 systems reserve the first 512 words of address space for the interrupt table if they run in real mode.

However, because MIPS Computer Systems, Inc .' s in-house effort to design a MIPS-based Windows NT system had met delays, MIPS Technologies abandoned its in-house efforts and instead licensed the Jazz design which Microsoft had developed in the early 1990s to facilitate the porting and development of Windows NT ( it is to be noted that Windows NT was first developed on the MIPS architecture, and was only later ported to the Intel 386, Alpha, and PowerPC architectures ).

In part because Microsoft intended NT to be portable between various microprocessor architectures, the MIPS RISC architecture was chosen for one of the first development platforms for the NT project in the late 1980s / early 1990s.

His work with stack architectures was the first implementation in a mainframe computer.

Release 8. 00 became the first GIS product to include support for NVIDIA CUDA technology, in which massively-parallel architectures utilized in NVIDIA GPU cards, employing up to hundreds of stream processors per card, can be utilized to execute general purpose GIS code for computations on rasters.

Such architectures can form a circuit guaranteed free of metastability ( below a certain maximum clock frequency, above which first metastability, then outright failure occur ), assuming a low-skew common clock.

It is one of the first examples of a cupola decorated both with architectures and figures ; it greatly influenced the Camera degli Sposi by Mantegna.