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In 1979, Christopher Evans wrote a book about the oncoming microcomputer revolution, The Mighty Micro: The Impact of the Computer Revolution, which included predictions for the future up to the year 2000. [1] This book was also printed in the US as The Micro Millennium (New York: The Viking Press, ISBN 0-670-47400-2).
Mini table saws are typically 4 inch, while micro table saws are less than 4 inch, although the naming of the saws is not well defined. Mini and micro table saws are generally used by hobbyists and model builders, although the mini table saws (4 inch) have gained some popularity with building contractors that need only a small saw to cut small ...
The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers designed and built by Acorn Computers Limited in the 1980s for the Computer Literacy Project of the BBC. The machine was the focus of a number of educational BBC TV programmes on computer literacy, starting with The Computer Programme in 1982, followed by Making the Most ...
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By the early 2000s, everyday use of the expression "microcomputer" (and in particular "micro") declined significantly from its peak in the mid-1980s. [7] The term is most commonly associated with the most popular 8-bit home computers (such as the Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, and TRS-80) and small-business CP/M-based ...
Mighty Machines is a Canadian educational children's television series that teaches about machines and how they work and the jobs they do. The show premiered in October 1994 on Family Channel . The show aired 39 episodes over three seasons until 2008.
The term "minicomputer" developed in the 1960s [7] to describe the smaller computers that became possible with the use of transistors and core memory technologies, minimal instructions sets and less expensive peripherals such as the ubiquitous Teletype Model 33 ASR.