Hardware Heritage—Briefcase-Sized Computers
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The computer industry was a vivid place in the 1980s. IT systems and technologies thrived, market offered ever better, smaller, more useful machines. Innovative technical solutions or intelligent designs that satisfied customers’ needs are often listed as hardware milestones. Consequently, they became permanent part of computerisation history can be considered heritage artefacts. purpose paper is to analyse usability selected portable systems. foundation work literature review includes specifications, reviews, research papers. Archival materials were obtained from Internet Archive. Studies have revealed main problems design engineers computers had tackle 1980s reduction mass size system, power (self-power), quality displayed image.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Heritage
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2571-9408']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4030126