Thursday 30 August 2012

[TechRepublic] Dinosaur Sightings: Computers from the 1970s

Cracking Open

TechRepublic Member | August 31, 2012

Editor's note
A recent study of 500 CIOs found that 62 percent think PCs will disappear from workers' desks within five years. So, I thought it was a good time to look back at some of the first PCs. -Bill

Dinosaur Sightings: Computers from the 1970s

Resource of the day

On-demand webcast: Steps to Move into a Virtualized Environment

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Today's recommended downloads

Healthcare Disaster Recovery Whitepaper (Hewlett-Packard (HP) & Intel)

Retail in the Smarter City (IBM)

Charting the Course to a Customer-Centric Business (IBM)

A New Day: How Smarter Computing can Grow Capacity on Flat Costs (IBM)

On-demand Webcast: Get from Wow to How with mobile workstyles and cloud services (Citrix Systems, Inc)


 

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