Microcomputer

The invention of the microcomputer revolutionized personal and business computing.

Students learned BASIC programming on a simple microcomputer connected to a small monitor.

The engineer designed a custom microcomputer to control the laboratory equipment.

In recent years, it had become the hallmark of the scientist, much as the stethoscope was that of the physician and the microcomputer that of the statistician.

The operation has installed nine Cygnet CoSystems, computerphones that send memos, letters, and even whole files from one microcomputer to another.

In time of course, things became more efficient, with newer machines which could cope with large amounts of data - the microcomputers had 64 kilobytes of memory; your mobile phone has vastly more capacity.