The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company ( now Apple Inc .) in 1976.

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

Version 4. 1, in a slightly modified form, was also the standard operating system for the Apple Network Server systems sold by Apple Computer to complement the Macintosh line.

* Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers

The Amstrad CPC ( short for Colour Personal Computer ) is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.

This is described by Donald E. Knuth and can be referenced from here The Art of Computer Programming.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

The Atari 7800 ProSystem was the first game system from Atari Inc. designed by an outside company, General Computer Corporation ( GCC ).

Some of the major awards in Computer science are given jointly by ACM and the IEEE – CS.

* Ken Kennedy Award, awarded by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society

One of the first to appear was Tiny BASIC, a simple BASIC variant designed by Dennis Allison at the urging of Bob Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club.

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.

The use of letter " i " prefixes and suffixes to denote information technology or interactivity was very much in vogue at this time, notably with the launch of the iMac and the iPod by Apple Computer ; according to the BBC, the " i " in BBCi stood for " interactivity " as well as " innovation ".

In the case of Software development, this moment is generally agreed to be the publication in the 1980s of the specifications for the IBM Personal Computer published by IBM employee Philip Don Estridge.

Computer source code is often written by computer programmers.

Computer displays and televisions with CRTs driven by digital electronics often use refresh rates of 100 Hz or more to largely eliminate any perception of flicker – see flicker-free.

Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics.

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.

The term mice was seen in print in " The Computer as a Communication Device ", written by J. C. R. Licklider in 1968.

Source code for a Coral 66 compiler ( written in BCPL ) has been recovered and the " Official Definition of Coral 66 " document by HMSO has been scanned ; the Ministry of Defence patent office has issued a licence to the Edinburgh Computer History project to allow them to put both the code and the language reference online for non-commercial use.

* Computer security compromised by hardware failure

* Chronological History of Commodore Computer – by Larry Anderson

Computer displays in which the positions of individual pixels are permanently fixed by the design of the hardware — such as most modern flat panel displays — can show saw-tooth edges when displaying small, high-contrast graphic elements such as text.

* Alan Wake, a video game by Remedy Entertainment

11 titles were developed and sold by three third-party companies under their own labels for the 7800 ( Absolute Entertainment, Activision, and Froggo ) with the rest published by Atari themselves.

Michael Giltz of Entertainment Weekly gave the book a " C -", feeling that " only hardcore fans will be satisfied by this tale " and saying that Jeter's " habit of echoing dialogue and scenes from the film is annoying and begs comparisons he would do well to avoid.

Parks, a theme park / family entertainment center chain owned by Palace Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA ,< ref name =" UCLAHonorDinner2006_11_06 ">

Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

* Cleopatra ( 1999 film ), an American film produced by Hallmark Entertainment

The anime series was dubbed in the English language by Animaze, and has been licensed by Bandai Entertainment for releases in North America.

It was also licensed by Beez Entertainment for English releases in the United Kingdom, and by Madman Entertainment for releases in Australia and New Zealand.

When Counter-Strike was published by Sierra Entertainment / Vivendi Universal Games, it was bundled with Team Fortress Classic, Opposing Force multiplayer, and the Wanted, Half-Life: Absolute Redemption and Firearms mods.

Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune ( 1984 ), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), which was critically acclaimed.

It was dubbed by Saban Entertainment ( later Sensation Animation ), and was initially broadcasted through Fox Network's Fox Kids and Fox Family.

However, the Chuang Yi releases of Digimon Frontier were distributed by Madman Entertainment in Australia.

It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner.

* Self Immolation, a record label and publishing company run by James George Thirlwell ( J. G. Thirlwell ) that later became Ectopic Entertainment

It was developed by Sony's 989 Studios and its early-1999 spin-off Verant Interactive, and published by Sony Online Entertainment ( SOE ).

The American version was released on VHS by GoodTimes Entertainment ( which acquired the license of some of Universal's film catalogue ) in 1987, and then on DVD to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the film's U. S release in 1998.

It was also recognized by the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association as one of the recipients for the " Games of the Year Award of Excellence " in the Japan Game Awards 2009.

It is presented by the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association ( CESA ) and the Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.

The 2010 Tokyo Game Show was held from September 16th to the 19th, and was hosted by Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association.