Flowcharting was a popular way to describe algorithms and processes, particularly in the 1970s. Each type of operation was represented by a specific shape, as described by several national standards. For example, "processing, annotation" was…
The IBM Personal Computer (PC) 5150 was introduced on August 12, 1981, and was powered by the Intel 8088 processing chip that ran at 4.77 MHz. The simplest configuration (costing about $1,565) had only 16K main memory and used a cassette as a…
The IBM System/360 family provided a standard, upward-compatible series of computer systems that were particularly popular within the business world. Programming often involved the use of assembly language, and the System/360 Reference Data…