Computers and Typesetting is a 5 volume set of books by Donald Knuth published 1986 describing the TeX and METAFONT Metafont systems for digital typography . Knuth s computers and typesetting project was the result of his frustration with the lack of decent software for the typesetting of mathematical and technical documents. The result of this project include TeX for typesetting, Metafont for typeface font construction and the Computer Modern typefaces that are the default fonts used by TeX. In the series of 5 books Knuth not only describes the TeX and Metafont languages volumes A and C , he also describes and documents the source code in the WEB programming language of the TeX and Metafont interpreters volumes B and D , and the source code for the Computer Modern fonts used by TeX volume E . The book set stands as a tour de force demonstration of literate programming . The books are loved by mathematician s and other users of TeX. They may be less well known to computer scientist s and programmer s, as the TeX project was an 8 year diversion to Knuth s multi volume The Art of Computer Programming . The books themselves were typeset in the Computer Modern Roman typeface using TeX thus, in Knuth s words, they belong to the class of sets of books that describe precisely their own appearance. Volumes The five volumes are published by Addison Wesley. Volume A The TeXbook. Describes the TeX typesetting language . It is by far the most common and available of the set, as the TeX interpreter is widely used for typesetting. It is available in softcover ISBN 0 201 13448 9 blue spiral bound with a built in flap for a bookmark and hardcover ISBN 0 201 13447 0 Volume B TeX The program. A documented listing of the source code of the TeX interpreter The 1986 edition in hardcover is ISBN 0 201 13437 3 Volume C The METAFONTbook. Describes the METAFONT font description language. Hardcover ... Computer books Category TeX Category Typesetting software Category Reference works Category Books ... more details
In typesetting , a strut is an invisible character or element, used to ensure that a text has a minimum height and depth, even if no other elements are included. For example, LaTeX and plain TeX ref name texbook Donald E. Knuth. The TeXbook Computers and Typesetting , Volume A . Reading, Massachusetts Addison Wesley, 1984. ISBN 0 201 13448 9, page 82. ref provide the command strut to insert a font size specific strut. In LaTeX ref name latex2e Braams, J. and Carlisle, D. and Jeffrey, A. and Lamport, L. and Mittelbach, F. and Rowley, C. and Sch pf, R., The LaTeX2e Sources . 2009 09 24, pages 19 and 129. Available online as http www.tug.org texlive Contents live texmf dist doc latex base source2e.pdf PDF and http mirror.ctan.org macros latex base source2e.tex LaTeX source . ref it has a height of 70 of the baseline skip the distance between the baselines of two consecutive lines of text and a depth of 30 of the baseline skip. It ensures that two vertical stacked boxes which include such a strut have the same distance like two normal consecutive lines. LaTeX also supports the creation of general struts using the command rule depth 0pt total height where code strut code is equivalent in size to code rule .3 baselineskip 0pt baselineskip code . References Reflist Category Typesetting ... more details
In typesetting , furniture is a term for pieces of wood that are shorter than the height of the type. These pieces are used to layout type by blocking out empty spaces white space in a layout set in a chase typesetting chase . Category Typesetting typography stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date October 2009 A reglet is a piece of wooden spacing material used in typesetting , usually to provide spacing between paragraphs, though it is sometimes used to fill in small spaces not taken up by type in the chase. See also Slug typesetting DEFAULTSORT Reglet Typesetting Category Typesetting Typ stub ... more details
A slug is a piece of spacing material used in typesetting to space paragraphs. They are usually manufactured in strips of 6pt lead. In modern typesetting programs such as Adobe InDesign , slugs hold printing information, customized color bar information, or displays other instructions and descriptions for other information in the document. Objects including text frames positioned in the slug area are printed but will disappear when the document is trimmed to its final page size. ref cite web title Using Adobe InDesign CS4 work Create new documents publisher Adobe Systems url http help.adobe.com en US InDesign 6.0 WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f 715aa.html accessdate 2009 10 16 ref Usage in web publishing main Slug web publishing More recently this term is also used in web publishing to refer to short article labels that can be used as a part of an URL . Slugs are usually derived from article s title and are limited in length and the set of characters to prevent percent encoding , often only letters, numbers and hyphens are allowed . ref cite web title Django Glossary work Django Documentation publisher Django Software Foundation url http docs.djangoproject.com en dev glossary term slug accessdate 2009 07 09 ref References Reflist See also Reglet typesetting Furniture typesetting Leading typ stub Category Typesetting de Reglette ... more details
Image Metal type.svg thumb right 200px Diagram of a cast metal sort . a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot. Image Sorts on composing stick.jpg thumb right 200px Metal type sorts arranged on a composing stick . main letterpress printing In typesetting by hand compositing, a sort is a piece of type representing a particular Letter alphabet letter or symbol , Casting cast from a matrix printing matrix mould and assembled with other sorts bearing additional letters into lines of type to make up a forme from which a page is printing printed . See also History of western typography Matrix printing Typeface Typography Type anatomy References Nesbitt, Alexander The History and Technique of Lettering c 1957, Dover Publications Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 0 486 20427 8, Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 57 13116. The Dover edition is an abridged and corrected republication of the work originally published in 1950 by Prentice Hall, Inc. under the title Lettering The History and Technique of Lettering as Design . External links http typophile.com wiki sort Typowiki , a type wiki at http typophile.com typophile.com http www.metaltype.co.uk Metal Type For Those who Remember Hot Metal Typesetting HR width 100 Category Typography Category Typesetting typ stub de Letter eo Prestipo es Tipo de letra ka kk lt Litera pl Czcionka pt Tipo tipografia ru simple Sort typesetting fi Kirjake sv Typ tryckningsprocess uk ... more details
In typesetting , justification can also be referred to as full justification is the typographic alignment setting of typography text or images within a column or measure to align along both the left and right Margin typography margin . Text set this way is said to be justified . In justified text, the spaces between words, and, to a lesser extent, between glyph s or Letter alphabet letter s kerning , are stretched or sometimes compressed in order to make the text align with both the left and right margins. When using justification, it is customary to treat the last line of a paragraph separately by left or right aligning it, depending on the language direction. Lines in which the spaces have been stretched beyond their normal width are called loose lines , while those whose spaces have been compressed are called tight lines . Styles The following table displays the difference between a justified flush left and flush right and a flush left and ragged right text. blockquote cellpadding 20 cellspacing 0 width 50 Justified flush left and right Flush left, ragged right style padding 0 1.5em text align justify Thy father was delighted and cried out to the servant, Give him a hundred and three gold pieces with a robe of honour The man obeyed his orders, and I awaited an auspicious moment, when I blooded him and he did not baulk me nay he thanked me and I was also thanked and praised by all present. When the blood letting was over I had no power to keep silence and asked him, By God, O ..., as do typesetting systems such as LaTeX . In the latter case, automatic hyphenation is required ..., both scribal and typesetting traditions took advantage of abbreviations sigla , Typographic ligature ... casting typesetting systems such as the Linotype machine Linotype were able to reduce the jaggedness ... right or in and out ragged , was available in traditional dedicated typesetting systems but is absent ... Simulator Typography terms DEFAULTSORT Justification Typesetting Category Typography de Blocksatz ... more details
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Context date October 2009 The New Typesetting System NTS is a reimplementation of the typesetting system TeX in Java . The specific aims of the project were to continue the tradition of Donald Knuth s TeX by providing a first class typesetting software which is both portable and available free of charge. But whereas TeX is now frozen due to maximum stability, NTS was intended to remain flexible and extensible. NTS is written in Java. It is alpha software released in 2000 and it is capable of generating Device independent file format DVI . History The NTS project was inaugurated under the auspices of Dante e.V. Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX in 1992. Coding began in 1998, following donations totalling 30 000 DM, and was funded through to completion. Joachim Lammarsch, Rainer Sch pf, Joachim Schrod, Bernd Raichle, Karel Skoup , Ji Zlatu ka, Philip Taylor, Peter Breitenlohner, Friedhelm Sowa and Hans Hagen, amongst others, have all been involved in this project, though not all were involved at the outset, and not all remained involved through to its completion. The objective of the project was to re implement TeX in a 100 compatible way. The final product of the project is trip test compatible, and demonstrates that a re implementation is feasible. However, for several reasons it was decided not to pursue the project any further. First of all, NTS is too slow to be used for production purposes, which does not motivate users to switch to this engine. Furthermore, the by then standard extensions such as e TeX were not included in the code. Also, in order to be useful today, Portable Document Format PDF output as well as pdfTeX specific extensions need to be implemented. Finally, by being 100 compatible with TeX, the sub processes of NTS are rather interwoven due to the nature of traditional TeX , which thereby makes the task of adding extensions less simple than ... typography Category Free TeX software Category Typesetting Category TeX ... more details
List of computers may refer to List of home computers List of home computers by category List of home computers by video hardware List of early microcomputers List of transistorized computers List of vacuum tube computers List of fictional computers List of VAX computers List of fastest computers Regional List of computer systems from Croatia List of computer systems from Serbia List of computer systems from Slovenia List of computer systems from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia List of Soviet computer systems See also Lists of microcomputers Category Computing lists Category Lists of lists computers ... more details
unreferenced date October 2006 History of printing In printing and typography , hot metal typesetting also called mechanical typesetting , hot lead typesetting , hot metal , and hot type refers to 19th century technologies for typesetting text in letterpress printing . This method injects molten type metal into a Molding process mold that has the shape of one or more glyph s. The resulting sort typesetting sort s and slug typesetting slug s are later used to press ink onto paper. Types of typesetting Two different approaches to mechanising typesetting were independently developed in the late 19th century. One, known as the Monotype Corporation Monotype composition caster system, produced texts with the aid of perforated paper ribbons, all characters are cast separate. These machines could produce texts also in large composition up to 36 point. The Super caster, was another machine produced by Monotype, designed to produce single type, up to 72 point. The other approach was to cast complete lines as one slug, usually comprising a whole line of text. Of this system there have been at least 5 different enterprises Linotype machine Linotype , Intertype Corporation the Typograph , produced in Germany The Monoline, a very basic machine All these machines were operated by non qwerty keyboards ... System took a different direction in hot metal typesetting, with the ability to cast loose type ... Corporation survived the demise of the hot metal typesetting era by selling digital type ... the heavy investment in hot metal typesetting could be adapted to the newer offset technology during ... Donald Knuth to create one of the first general purpose digital typesetting programs, TeX TeX . Although strictly speaking not typesetting, stereotyping electrotyping electrotype or nickeltype could ... typesetting Hot metal typesetting in pictures http www.Raether Buch.de Free e book Linotype Chronik ... Linotype & Ludlow Working Museums Denmark, Iowa Category Typesetting de Bleisatz ... more details
Multiple issues unreferenced October 2010 orphan February 2009 notability November 2011 Italic title This article is about the academic journal. For use of computers in education, see Electronic learning . Computers in Education is an academic journal which publishes articles relevant to analog, hybrid, and digital computation in education . It is published by the Northeast Consortium for Engineering Education on behalf of the Computers in Education Division of the American Society for Engineering Education . journal stub Category Education journals ... more details
Imtel Computers is a Belgrade Serbia based computer company. The history of Imtel Computers dates back to 1973 when a division of Institute of Physics in Belgrade became a separate company named Institute of Applied Physics short IPF . Later in 1990, when the activities moved to the field of elecronics, the company changed its name to Institute of Microwave Technology and ELectronics short IMTEL . In 1994 Imtel split into two companies Imtel Computers and Imtel Microwaves. Today, Imtel Computers is a corporation having 50 employees located in its own office building of approximately 1,500 square meters in the center of New Belgrade Novi Beograd . Its main business is Import and wholesale of computer components Manufacturing, sales and service of personal computers and computer equipment Sales, design, installation and maintenance of computer networks and systems Computer communications and electronic business systems. Military tehnologies External links http www.imtel.rs i2.php?p en Imtel Computers http www.imtel rtv.rs eng indexe.htm Imtel Microwaves Category Computer companies of Serbia Category Companies established in 1973 ... more details
. Some common classifications are summarized below. For others see Category Classes of computers . Classes by Size Microcomputers Personal computers Microcomputer s are the most common type of computers ... is now practically an anachronism . These computers include Desktop computers A case and a display, put under and on a desk. In car computers carputer s Built into a car, for In car entertainment entertainment , Automotive navigation system navigation , etc. Game console s Fixed computers specialized ... computers and Palmtop computers Portable and all in one case. Varying sizes, but other than smartbooks expected to be full computers without limitations. Tablet computer Like laptops, but with a touch ... s personal digital assistants Small handheld computers with limited hardware. Programmable calculator ... as game consoles, but small and portable. Minicomputers Midrange computers A minicomputer colloquially ... microcomputer s or personal computers . The contemporary term for this class of system is midrange ... , IBM and Hewlett Packard . Mainframe computers Unsourced image removed File JABIL.jpg thumb .... These computers are capable of handling and processing very large amounts of data quickly. Mainframe computers are used in large institutions such as government, banks and large corporations ... powerful computers such as server computers or mainframes. Classes by function Servers computer ... are actually personal computers that have been dedicated to providing services for other computers. Workstations Workstation s are computers that are intended to serve one user and may contain special ... vendors dropped support for these machines, as personal computers reached the processing capabilities of Mini computers and Workstations. Also, with the release of Windows NT and Linux, the operating systems of personal computers could do the job of this class of machines. Very few machines today are made in this class. Information appliances Information appliance s are computers specially designed ... more details
Infobox company name Tiny Computers logo File tiny logo.gif type Private foundation 1990 defunct 2002 brand used until 2005 locations 150 UK slogan Think big about your PC think Tiny parent OT Computers 1990 2002 br Granville Technology Group 2002 2005 homepage www.tiny.com now defunct Tiny Computers Ltd. was a United Kingdom British computer company based in Redhill Business Park in Salfords , Redhill, Surrey Redhill in Surrey , England . The company used the advertising slogan Think big about your PC think Tiny . During the late 1990s they were a highly successful firm having units throughout the major retail stores of the UK as well as launching in the USA and the Far East, but their profits eventually began to fall and in 2002 they went into Administration law administration and were subsequently purchased by rival Granville Technology Group TIME . External links http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi business 4719833.stm BBC NEWS Business Tiny PCs goes into administration http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi business 1791873.stm Tiny Computers swallowed up http forums.cnet.co.uk podcast tiny computers the tiny computer brand t10014240 CNET Detailed company and product discussion Dead link date June 2011 Category Defunct companies of the United Kingdom Category Computer companies of the United Kingdom Category Companies based in Surrey ict company stub ca Tiny Computers ... more details
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Orphan date February 2009 Unreferenced date November 2008 Infobox Company company name Computers In Personnel Ltd company logo Image Computers in personnel.jpg 160px foundation Marlow, Buckinghamshire Marlow , England , UK 1982 location Marlow, Buckinghamshire Marlow , England , UK key people Peter Watsham, Chairman br Chris Berry, Managing Director industry Software num employees 70 homepage http www.computersinpersonnelhr.com www.computersinpersonnelhr.com Computers In Personnel CIP is a real estate developers developer , distributor and supporter of human resources management software and wikt service service s, supplying over 700 businesses from a variety of sectors internationally. Founded in 1982 and with head offices in Marlow, Buckinghamshire Marlow , United Kingdom, CIP develops a range of software in house and in partnership with other software providers. CIP has regional training centres throughout the UK. History Computers In Personnel was founded by Peter Watsham in 1982 in Marlow, to develop computer based human resources software and providing consultancy in the use of personal computers in personnel departments. Computers In Personnel was one of the first software suppliers in the UK to make their entire sales cycle more environmentally friendly, through the use of technology such as WebEx. WebEx allows Computers In Personnel to undertake sales demonstrations and product implementations via desktop sharing and control, removing the requirement for site to site travelling. http www.personneltoday.com articles 2008 01 15 43956 computers in personnel takes green approach to software sales and support.html Products Computers In Personnel s products are designed for an organisation s human resources , personnel , training and recruitment departments. Initially, the first products were DOS based systems, designed for each client. However, soon a mass market solution ... Computers In Personnel Ltd Software Homepage Category Companies established ... more details
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Computers and Writing is the name of a sub field of college English studies whose members are dedicated to the academic study of how personal computer computers , as well as other, related digital technologies, affect literacy and the writing process. The range of inquiry in this field is quite broad and can include studies as diverse as works of videogame theory to a quantitative study of first year college students using Microsoft Word . Some frequently addressed topics include hypertext theory, visual rhetoric , multimedia authoring, distance learning , digital rhetoric or eRhetoric , usability studies, the formation and lifecycles of online communities, and how various media change reading and writing practices, textual conventions, and genres. Other topics examine social or critical issues in computer technology and literacy, such as the issues of the digital divide , equitable access to computer writing resources, and critical technological literacies. The field, which in the United ... are Computers & Composition , http www.bgsu.edu cconline home.htm Computers & Composition Online ... and Communication has a committee, known as the 7Cs committee CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication , that selects onsite and online hosts for the Computers & Writing conference and coordinates the Technology Innovator Award presented at that annual conference. Computers and writing ... to the production and consumption of digital, multimodal, and new media texts. Computers and writing pedagogy also considers students previous knowledge of computers and technological skills as an asset. The majority of computers and writing scholars seem to agree that engaging students in the production ... moment, but how best to do this is somewhat controversial. Computers and writing pedagogies must ... by these teachers and scholars continues to be relatively traditional. While a computers and writing ... an achievable goal. In the pedagogical paradigm shift that computers and composition ... more details
Infobox company name MESH Computers logo Image Mesh Computers.png 140px MESH Logo type Private location city Staples Corner, London location country United Kingdom key people Mehdi Sherafati , founder industry Computer hardware products Desktop computer Desktops br Media centre s br Laptops revenue 33,000,000 United States dollar USD 2008 num employees 147 homepage http www.meshcomputers.com MeshComputers.com Advert date February 2012 MESH Computers is a computer Company law company based in London , England , owned by Mehdi Sherafati. As well as being a PC manufacturer, the company also sells a number of peripherals and components through their website. During its first 20 years of business, MESH Computers could only be purchased direct from the manufacturer however, after 2006, MESH began to expand its operations, selling through major retailers like Comet Group Comet . ref http www.computeractive.co.uk personal computer world news 2167958 comet sell mesh computers Comet to sell MESH Computers ref MESH Computers has recently When date March 2011 opened up a number of new routes to market, including resellers in the UK like eBuyer. ref http www.ebuyer.com search?page 1&q mesh&mfr 1243 eBuyer ref Most recently, MESH has started to expand its product offerings, including products like ... systems. In the summer of 2010, MESH Computers was voted PC Manufacturer of the Year by both Computer ... www.dooyoo.co.uk misc systems mesh computers 1 1542296 Doo Yoo Administration On 1 June, 2011 it was announced that MESH Computers had gone into administration and that key assets had been bought by components firm PC Peripherals. ref cite web title Mesh Computers in administration url http www.pcpro.co.uk news 367738 mesh computers in administration accessdate 1 June 2011 ref . In February 2012, the owner ... of PC Peripherals. ref http www.pcpro.co.uk news 372814 former mesh computers owner back in charge ref References reflist External links http www.meshcomputers.com Mesh Computers Category Computer companies ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Computers and Blues Type studio Artist The Streets Cover Computers and Blues Cover.jpg Released 7 February 2011 UK Recorded 2009 2010 Genre UK garage ... Mike Skinner Producer Mike Skinner Last album Cyberspace and Reds br 2011 This album Computers and Blues br 2011 Next album Misc Singles Name Computers and Blues Type studio Single 1 Going Through ... ref cite web url http www.metacritic.com music computers blues title Computers & Blues Reviews, Ratings ... rev1Score Rating 4 5 ref cite web last O Brien first Jon url http allmusic.com album computers and blues r2127667 title Computers and Blues The Streets publisher AllMusic date 2011 02 07 accessdate ... music 2011 feb 03 streets computers and blues review Review ref rev4 Consequence of Sound rev4Score ... computers and blues title Album Review The Streets Computers and Blues Consequence of Sound publisher ... Rating 4 5 ref http www.telegraph.co.uk culture music rockandpopreviews 8304147 The Streets Computers ... computers and blues.php title The Streets Computers And Blues Album Review Reviews Music publisher ... music reviews album the streets computers and blues 679 2203484.html Review ref rev10 musicOMH ... Computers And Blues & 124 album reviews publisher musicOMH date accessdate 2012 02 10 ref ... the streets computers and blues,51831 title The Streets Computers And Blues & 124 Music & 124 Music ... 5.7 10.0 ref cite web url http pitchfork.com reviews albums 15099 computers and blues title The Streets Computers and Blues & 124 Album Reviews publisher Pitchfork date 2011 02 28 accessdate 2012 ... the streets computers and blues title The Streets Computers And Blues & 124 Clash Music Latest Album ... Rating 7 10 ref http www.popmatters.com pm review 136854 the streets computers and blues Review ref Computers and Blues is the fifth album by The Streets and the final one Mike Skinner plans to release ... Maguire length14 3 08 Chart performance On 10 February 2011, Computers and Blues debuted at number ... more details
Infobox company company name Computers and Structures, Inc. company logo Image Fair use image of CSI circular logo.PNG 200px foundation Berkeley, California , U.S. 1975 br small headquarters small br key people Ashraf Habibullah, Structural Engineer S.E. br small Founder, President, and CEO small br industry Structural Engineering br Earthquake Engineering br Software products SAP2000 br CSiBridge br ETABS br SAFE br PERFORM 3D br CSiCOL homepage http www.csiberkeley.com csiberkeley.com Computers and Structures, Inc. CSI is a structural engineering structural and earthquake engineering earthquake engineering software company founded in 1975 ref cite web url http www.csiberkeley.com title Computers and Structures, Inc. official website author Computers and Structures, Inc. year 2011 work Official website summary publisher Computers and Structures, Inc. accessdate December 4, 2011 ref and based in Berkeley, California . Additional office locations include New York City New York , Houston , Madrid , New Delhi , and the Caribbean . ref Google maps url http maps.google.com maps?q computers and structures inc. office locations&hl en&sll 36.879621,169.453125&sspn 155.459218,316.054688&vpsrc 0&hq computers and structures inc. office&t m&z 2 title Computers and Structures, Inc. office locations accessdate December 5, 2011 ref The structural structural analysis analysis and structural design design software CSI produce include SAP2000, CSiBridge, ETABS, SAFE, PERFORM 3D, and CSiCOL. One of Computer and Structure, Inc. s software, ETABS, was used to create the mathematical model of the Burj Khalifa , currently the world s tallest building, designed by Chicago, Illinois based Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP SOM . ref name baker Citation last Baker, S.E. first William F. last2 Pawlikowski, S.E. first2 James J. year 2009 title Design and construction of the world s tallest building .... ref name baker References Reflist External links http www.csiberkeley.com Computers and Structures ... more details
Infobox company company name MDG Computers Canada Inc. company logo File MDG logo.png 200px MDG Logo company type Private company Private company slogan The Best Selling Canadian PC Brand foundation Oakville, ON 1991 location Oakville, ON , Canada key people Goran Varaklic , CEO products Desktop computer Desktops br Laptops br LCD TV homepage http www.mdg.ca www.mdg.ca MDG Computers Canada Inc. is a Canadian owned manufacturer, distributor and retailer of personal computers PCs , notebooks and related products and accessories. The company was founded in 1991 with a single location, and now has 18 franchised locations across Canada , with headquarters located in Oakville, Ontario . History Citations broken date November 2011 MDG was founded in 1991 in Oakville, Ontario and grew to be the largest domestic PC company in Canada. Citation needed date October 2007 They are particularly known for television advertisements for MDG Direct, a division that provides financing towards purchase of select desktops, laptops and televisions. They have launched large scale campaigns with Canadian Tire Financial Services , American Express , ref http www.mdg.ca amex MDG AMEX Promotion ref Visa International Visa , ref http www.mdg.ca visaperks MDG VISA Perks ref Blockbuster Inc. Blockbuster Canada ... http www.mdg.ca TD MDG TD Visa Campaign ref MDG Computers launched an online retail store called MDG ... unreferenced section date November 2011 MDG is a manufacturer of desktop and laptop computers running ... strategy of using name brand parts for all major components of their computers. The goal was to differentiate ... desktops, laptops and LCD HDTVs to Canadian customers MDG also sells desktop computers on the NMSO ..., including their factory. On average MDG s computers cost more than most other brands. Mass retail In 2009 MDG Computers has begun to sell netbooks through mass retailers and online retailers including ... London Drugs nowrap MDG Computers nowrap The Source retailer The Source DEFAULTSORT Mdg Computers Category ... more details
File GEC Computers logo.png right File GEC4000computerRoom.png thumb 400px GEC 4000 series computers, GEC Computers Dunstable Development Centre, 1979 1991 GEC Computers Limited was the computer manufacturing ... to International Computers Limited ICT ICL and non computing products to English Electric ... retained the real time computing systems, the Elliott 900 series computers, and set about designing ... in industrial and military applications, and development of many new computers in the series continued ... 900 series for existing 900 series customers. GEC Computers also found that some of the software .... In the mid 1970s, GEC Computers was working on OS4000 , a more advanced operating system for the GEC 4000 series. This opened up the GEC 4000 series computers to more customers, including many ... in applications which GEC Computers developed further and sold, in addition to the sales of the computers .... ref cite web url http www.cucumber.demon.co.uk geccl 4000series Queens Award.pdf title GEC Computers ... systems around the UK by now meant that GEC Computers had built up a widespread field service organisation ... when required to provide this type of service, and GEC Computers started taking on 3rd party field service support for many other companies, including some which competed with GEC Computers own products. GEC Computers field service operations is still identifiable in 2009 in Telent . Throughout the 1980s, GEC Computers expanded from its Borehamwood offices into 3 large purpose built factory units ... Computers extensive presence in UK academic and research organisations, and the UK field service organisation, led Sun Microsystems to choose GEC Computers to be its presence in the UK for the UK launch of its Sun 2 product range in the early 1980s, which GEC Computers sold under the name of GEC Series 42. GEC Computers developed some reduced cost workstations called the GEC Series 21 based on Atari ST Atari 520ST and 1040ST systems with replaced PROM operating system code. GEC Computers was not particularly ... more details
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