Instead, the school had a fundraiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 that was owned by General Electric. ... However, Lakeside had drastically underestimated the time that the young Bill Gates would spend on this machine. He and other students would spend all day and night, learning, and writing programming from any literature they could find. Within a few weeks of learning about computers, the students had used up all of the school's bought time. ... He knew that the home computer market was about to explode, and that someone would need to make software for the new machines. ...

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Introduction As time passes by, technology continues to evolve. ... Almost all the things around us were made by computers with the aid of modern machines. ... "Effects of computer usage to the academic performance of students" Chapter II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE The scope of Computer effects derives a wide scope of related literature that is worth mentioning. ... Many of us will feel crippled without a computer, as we have gotten so used to this machine. ... Children today are forgetting how to write and many blame their awful hand writing on this machine which has taught everyo...

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Technology has expanded exponentially from the beginning of time until the 90's. ... Email can have more of a real time relay in the future. There is also the possibility of your email not reaching its destination, which we all have experienced at one time. ... World Library Incorporated produced a fully searchable CD-ROM containing 450 (later expanded to 953) classical works of literature and historic documents. ... These chips are designed around a reduced instruction set machine language, intended to produce more compact, faster executing code. ...

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The rich literature, scientific discoveries, space exploration, and geological exploration are just some of the most distinguished human endeavors that have been undertaken over time. ... A computer can be used with a grade one student to help that child learn new English vocabulary and the same machine can be used by a university student to write a sophisticated micro-chip program to control a robotic arm. ... Over time, various academic institutions in the United States incorporated computer courses in to their academic curriculums to emphasize the need for developing the technology for f...

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Software that uses two-digit year fields (that is, almost all of it) will understand the year 2000 as "00- if the problem is not corrected in time- (pg. 1). ... Joel Noble, MD (1999) advises hospitals to cancel leave for staff members and make sure that every patient attached to a critical machine has an individual monitoring them. ... Literature Review Y2K. ... During this time period software, hardware, computer languages, and product capabilities were constantly changing. ... This can be a very time consuming task in which individuals are appointed to guide the project as a temporary...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate