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** In Atari 8-bit computers, three of the pins are used to read state of the console keys ( Start / Select / Option ).
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** and Atari
** Gauntlet ( NES video game ), the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System game based on the original 1985 Atari game
** Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.
** Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song Hallelujah.
** Yamaha YM2149, used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum computers ( same as General Instrument AY-3-8910 )
** Audio formats: MIDI, AIFF, WAV / WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus ( AAC +), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio ( APE ), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC / Musepack / Mpeg +, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD ( Amiga Module ), XM, NSF ( NES Sound Format ), SPC ( SNES ), GYM ( Genesis ), SID ( Commodore 64 ), Adlib, YM ( Atari ST ), ADPCM ( Nintendo GameCube ), and CDDA.
** and 8-bit
** Commodore 64 ( or C64 or C = 64 ), an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982, the single best-selling personal computer model of all-time
** Commodore 128 ( or C128, CBM 128, or C = 128 ), a home / personal computer introduced in January 1985, the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore Business Machines
** Modern 8-bit and 16-bit Microcontroller chips, such as Atmel AVR and TI MSP430 chips, support JTAG programming and debugging.
** MOS Technology 8500 ( the 6510 / 8500 being a modified 6502 with an integrated 8-bit I / O port )
** and computers
** Commodore Amiga, a family of personal computers introduced to the market in 1985 after Commodore International purchased the original developers, Amiga Corporation
** Commodore Semiconductor Group, also known as MOS Technology, Inc., famous for its various designs for Commodore Internationals range of home computers
** Human-computer interaction ( security ), the study of how people interact with computers concerning information security
** In Holmdel, New Jersey, scientists at Bell Labs announce they have created a digital optical processor that could lead to the development of superfast computers that use pulses of light rather than electric currents to make calculations.
** Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike.
** Kickstart, used in the Amiga line of computers ( POST, hardware init + Plug and Play auto-configuration of peripherals, kernel, etc.
** Where a network of equipment or computers are interlinked through an MES ( Manufacturing Execution System )- or Host.
** Domain Name System ( DNS ), an hierarchical naming system for computers or any resource connected to the Internet
** David Cory, Amr Fahmy and Timothy Havel, and at the same time Neil Gershenfeld and Isaac L. Chuang at MIT published the first papers realising gates for quantum computers based on bulk spin resonance, or thermal ensembles.
** Computer form factor, the industry-standard physical dimensions of the major components of computers
** H-High speed ( still produced but generally superseded by the S-series, used in 1970s era computers )
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