Progress in computer hardware and software is often a leap-frog process, and this affects how users can do things.
In the early 1980s, IBM R&D provided me a model 1 Personal Computer (actually the 5150), which came with a mere 64Kb RAM and two 360Kb floppy drives, plus IBM/MS DOS 1.0. Looking back, that was pretty [...]
I got my first IBM Personal Computer model PC-1 (actually the 5150) in 1982 while I was in IBM R&D. It was to serve both as a low power computer and as a data terminal by means of a cable adapter. It came with the minimal 64Kb of RAM, so I immediately had to order [...]
Also tagged apl, arc, basic, clone, dos, fortran, gateway, gz, ibm, lenovo, mainframe, personal computer, phil katz, pkarc, pkzip, rar, sea, tar, unix, zipA quick look at “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)” reveals that Mosaic was the first popular World Wide Web browser to mix image elements with text. It was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 1992, released to the public in 1993 for non commercial use, and orphaned in 1997.
Mosaic project alumni and other users established Mosaic [...]