ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1978-07-01DOI: 10.1145/1164917.1164919
P. Isaacson
{"title":"Personal computing position paper","authors":"P. Isaacson","doi":"10.1145/1164917.1164919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1164917.1164919","url":null,"abstract":"The goals of personal computing are to improve the quality of life for individuals by providing them with a tool that not only relieves them from doing boring tedious work, but gives them a means of automating many of the marvelous ideas that the human brain can generate. The artist can use the personal computer to create new art forms. The stock analyst can use the personal computer to analyze stock trends. The secretary can use the personal computer to edit a manuscript. The uses of the personal computer are as varied as the individuals who use them.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"64 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":"114466946","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: 10.1145/1164917.1164924
Jim C. Warren
{"title":"Position paper on: computing power for the layperson","authors":"Jim C. Warren","doi":"10.1145/1164917.1164924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1164917.1164924","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers a prognosis of forseeable events and developments that are likely to occur within the next decade in the area of \"personal computing\"---computing power made available to many segments of the general public in consumer products, or at least in mass-produced, mass-marketed electronics systems that will impringe on many aspects of the overall society and culture. As requested in the call for papers, this document will be limited to discussion of (1) major problems or obstacles to be overcome, (2) significant steps currently being taken to overcome the obstacles, (3) necessary advances or breakthroughs, (4) costs of those advances or breakthroughs, and (5) effects of the solutions or breakthroughs on computing in the 1980's. Disclaimer: Due to the requested focus of this conference---problems and obstacles---this paper will have a somewhat negative tone. Solved problems, obstacles that have been overcome, and the promise that this author believes is inherent in computing power being made available to the general public will not be discussed.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"127 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":"133197144","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: 10.1145/1164917.1164920
R. Heiser
{"title":"Personal computing position paper","authors":"R. Heiser","doi":"10.1145/1164917.1164920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1164917.1164920","url":null,"abstract":"The problems of the 80's for personal computing center around the task of developing an entire industry to produce and distribute good machines and software. Developing an industry is much trickier than developing a single product or technical solution.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"26 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":"116979809","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: 10.1145/1164917.1164918
P. Isaacson
{"title":"Problems of the '80's: the Oregon report on computing","authors":"P. Isaacson","doi":"10.1145/1164917.1164918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1164917.1164918","url":null,"abstract":"The following papers were the working papers of the Personal Computing session participants at The Oregon Report on Computing Conference held 20--22 March 1978 in Portland, Oregon. The papers are also published in the Conference Proceedings available through the IEEE Computer Society.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"1 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":"130043057","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: 10.1145/1164917.1164921
A. Osborne
{"title":"Personal computing position paper","authors":"A. Osborne","doi":"10.1145/1164917.1164921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1164917.1164921","url":null,"abstract":"Personal computing has evolved in an unplanned and haphazard manner, as an unanticipated consequence of low-cost microprocessor devices.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"5 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":"124034182","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: 10.1145/1164917.1164923
Alan C. Kay, A. Goldberg, Larry Tesler
{"title":"Position paper on: how to advance from hobby computing to personal computing","authors":"Alan C. Kay, A. Goldberg, Larry Tesler","doi":"10.1145/1164917.1164923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1164917.1164923","url":null,"abstract":"Neither hardware nor software is right; most everything is yet to be done.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"290 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":"116527675","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}