ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1979-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1041578.1041579
Larry Press
{"title":"Review of \"The Incredible Secret Money Machine by Don Lancaster\", Howard W. Sams Co., Inc.","authors":"Larry Press","doi":"10.1145/1041578.1041579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041578.1041579","url":null,"abstract":"This book is a guide for beginning entrepreneurs rather than about personal computers; however, it seems relevant to the PC Community for several reasons. One is that Don Lancaster is very much a personal computerist, having written many fine electronics \"cookbooks\" and articles for personal computing magazines. Furthermore, it seems to me that just about everyone who is working with personal computers has some sort of enterprise underway or in the back of his mind.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126333221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1979-04-01DOI: 10.1145/1113634.1113637
N. Weiderman
{"title":"Personalizing large computers","authors":"N. Weiderman","doi":"10.1145/1113634.1113637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1113634.1113637","url":null,"abstract":"Many of us in the computing field who have been accustomed to using time-sharing systems on mini and maxi computers are not yet ready to give up our access to large interactive systems in favor of a personal computer. Personal computers simply do not provide the diversity of software and data available through a good time-sharing facility. However, as computing professionals we realize that personal computers will become a larger part of our work and that we ought to have one in our office. How can we reasonably justify personal computers and bridge the gap between our past experience and the newer technology? Obviously we must provide the incentive of offering better interactive access to maxi computers through a microcomputer. In this case, \"better\" can mean faster, cheaper, and more friendly computing.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127644518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1979-04-01DOI: 10.1145/1113634.1113636
M. Dempster, G. Fick, R. Hackathorn
{"title":"IMPACTS of small-scale computing technology","authors":"M. Dempster, G. Fick, R. Hackathorn","doi":"10.1145/1113634.1113636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1113634.1113636","url":null,"abstract":"This paper was initiated through discussions at a seminar on \"Managerial and Organizational Consequences of Mini/Micro Computers\" sponsored by the Management and Technology Area of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria on September 26-28, 1978.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"310 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122785364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1979-04-01DOI: 10.1145/1113634.1113635
Larry Press, Jeff Rothenberg, J. Carlstedt
{"title":"The next generation of personal computers: a position paper","authors":"Larry Press, Jeff Rothenberg, J. Carlstedt","doi":"10.1145/1113634.1113635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1113634.1113635","url":null,"abstract":"The dissemination of computational power and access has followed lines typical of many other technologies. Telephones were once available to only a few people, and were nearly always shared, but as their utility became recognized and their cost decreased, their availability spread.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127061437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1978-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1041571.1041576
P. Isaacson, R. Gammill, R. Heiser, A. Osborne, Larry Tesler, Jim C. Warren
{"title":"Personal computing: problems of the 80's","authors":"P. Isaacson, R. Gammill, R. Heiser, A. Osborne, Larry Tesler, Jim C. Warren","doi":"10.1145/1041571.1041576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041571.1041576","url":null,"abstract":"The personal computer defies exact definition. Any general-purpose computer affordable by an individual is certainly a personal computer. If that same computer is used by a business, it is still a personal computer. Usually even in the business it would be dedicated to the use of a person or a small group. In a company, a person's computer may be analogous to his desk--the desk is personal even though it is owned by the corporation. Just as an automobile may be the personal property of one family member or shared by the entire family, so can the personal computer be singly used or shared, perhaps even time-shared.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130385828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1978-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1041571.1041573
J. Nilles, P. Gray, F. R. Carlson, John P. Hayes
{"title":"The personal computer and society: a technology assessment","authors":"J. Nilles, P. Gray, F. R. Carlson, John P. Hayes","doi":"10.1145/1041571.1041573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041571.1041573","url":null,"abstract":"The University of Southern California has initiated a technology assessment of the personal computer. The assessment is partially supported by the National Science Foundation. The ultimate purpose of a technology assessment is to help provide a more human future with less shock. This technology assessment is directed toward examining the potential future impacts of personal computers and identifying the public policy issues associated with these possibilities. This article summarizes the major factors that we intend to explore during the assessment.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129694733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1978-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1041571.1041574
S. Dunn
{"title":"PL/I compilation: an application of a microprocessor network","authors":"S. Dunn","doi":"10.1145/1041571.1041574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041571.1041574","url":null,"abstract":"With the recent increase in microprocessor use today, there is an ever increasing need for high-level languages for microprocessors. Instead of developing a cross compiler to produce suitable object code, a resident compiler should be developed.In order to increase the speed of the compilation, several microprocessors shall be used to perform the task. The compiler itself will not be an optimizing version and will be modularized so that it may be implemented on different size networks with changes only in the executive program.The microprocessor network will be constructed so that it may be used for other functions, not only to compile high level languages. The network implementation should be price-attractive, that is, the cost of implementing the network is competitive with the price of microprocessor compilers currently available on the market today.Although this paper is concentrating on an alternative to non-resident compilers for microprocessors, it is also to introduce another method for processor interconnection in multiprocessor networks and arrays.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126673588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1978-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1041571.1041572
A. Clement
{"title":"If \"small is beautiful,\" is micro marvellous?: a look at micro-computing as if people mattered","authors":"A. Clement","doi":"10.1145/1041571.1041572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041571.1041572","url":null,"abstract":"E. F. Schumacher, in <u>Small is Beautiful</u> and his more recent work, has drawn attention to the role that technology plays in the shaping of our present society and to the need for technologies of smaller scale in the growth of a more humane society. He identifies the criteria of <u>smallness, simplicity, capital cheapness</u>, and <u>non-violence</u> as being particularly important. Micro-computer technology, which is the basis of computing systems for home and personal use, seems to satisfy these criteria in many respects, and so it potentially represents a technology appropriate for future general use.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132976452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1978-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1041571.1041575
Jim C. Warren
{"title":"The Digicast#8482; project","authors":"Jim C. Warren","doi":"10.1145/1041571.1041575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041571.1041575","url":null,"abstract":"Computers have been consumer products since 1975 (1). Individuals involved in the consumer computer industry estimate that there are 50,000-200,000 general-purpose digital computers installed in peoples' homes. Thus far, these have been exciting, educational, challenging toys--to the extent that they have been used for non-commercial, non-tax-deductible purposes. Their primary use as a consumer product has been in non-arithmetic or minimal-computation applications. One difference between their being an exciting toy, and making them into an obviously useful consumer product, of value to the general public, is the ability to attach them to large data bases of interest and use to the general public. The Digicast Project purposes to provide one of the first such \"attachments\" for personal computers.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117016688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1978-07-01DOI: 10.1145/1164917.1164922
R. Gammill
{"title":"Position paper on: personal computers for science in the 1980's","authors":"R. Gammill","doi":"10.1145/1164917.1164922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1164917.1164922","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the problems involved in the development of an inexpensive personal computer for use by scientific researchers in a variety of disciplines. Since the term \"personal computer\" (PC) is ill-defined, we begin by describing what it is intended to mean here and the special requirements imposed by the context of use in scientific research. Subsequently there will be much more detailed examination of the reasons behind the assertions that follow.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130511244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}