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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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With early personal computers, it used to be possible to buy file browsers which would allow people to access files stored on disks in a more efficient or graphical way than offered by the operating system.
These early computers did not have explicit graphics capabilities and were used more for large-scale data management, such as payrolls and record keeping, and for scientific research relying on intensive numerical computation, such as physics.
Because computers were first used for numerical calculations, early computer engineers developed a representation for numbers in terms of fixed-size chunks.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Robert Hand was known in his early career as the first practicing astrologer to write astrology programs for microcomputers so that the benefits of computers would be available to astrologers.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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Since these early developments we have seen the production of mainframes, personal computers and the creation of both the hardware and software industries globally.
Early client-server computers were also stand-alone networks, owned entirely by a single organization to allow internal data communication.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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They were among the first to use computers in the area of photographic astrometry, and the accuracy of these techniques permitted Jefferys to make significant early contributions in determining proper motions for objects beyond our galaxy.
Time sharing was an early and effective application of the philosophy that the existing means of using computers should be tailored to the way people function, rather than forcing people who want to use them to conform to mechanical constraints.
Early computers were initially used for solving complex and repetitive mathematical equations.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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This design was used in computers that ran early Intel Pentium processor and later AMD K-6 processor lines.
It is very much like the early days of word processing software for personal computers: An Apple PC created document could not be read on an IBM PC.
Early handheld computers running the Windows CE operating system were simple PIMs (Personal Information Managers) that only kept your telephone directory, personal calendar and possibly a to-do list.
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