Brian Paul - ComputerWorld 1980
Hitting Home
--Amazon 1.0
--Use modified color TVs as monitor
Voice Recognition!
--Recognized 64 commands that you recorded.
--Use to dictate or recall data.
--Costs $3,000
Color Screens Emerge
--Massive 25in CRT screen
--1000 lines resolution
--Only $12,400 (~$35,400 today)
Birth of CGI
--Artists are trying to make art using
computers.
--Everything turns out similar, no room for expression.
--Still have a while to go until computers are a viable solution.
Financial Computing
--Small town stays profitable using a computer to budget
finances.
--Used to have an IBM- took hours to process and did not multitask.
Other computer uses
--Saab using a computer to prioritize parts orders.
--Searches databases for parts and automatically prints shipping labels.
--The digital company offers Remote
troubleshooting
--Just needs a phone line
Better Than IBM
--Still support older IBM software
--Less hardware restrictions
--Support new features years before IBM models.
Hard Drives More Practical
IBM starts the trend away from Cobol. (DMS language)
Familiar Faces Arrive
--Microsoft vs Unix-based solution.
--First fully 16-bit Unix platform.
--"Just buy all our software and there will be no conflicts"