11 Jan
1998
11 Jan
'98
8:51 a.m.
At 09:16 AM 1/11/98 -0800, you wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Francois Auradon wrote:
What would you call a HP Integral? It has screen, printer, keyboard
(detachable but stores on the unit), disk drive, CPU, memory, etc in one
unit. But also has a HP-IB cable connection and can be connected to upto 14
peripherals including printers, instruments, more floppy or hard drives, etc.
I don't think you can clearly differentiate some of these machines.
Joe
Hi all, Is there an official name for all various
computer packages?
What I trying to find is how to call a computer that is just a keyboard
that you plug on the TV (a la C64)versus a computer that has everything
attached (TRS 80 mod 4) versus a PC style where components are separate.
For computers like the C-64, the TI-99/4a, Atari 800, etc. I call the CPU
a "console". Basically, anything with an integrated CPU, keyboard and
video output I call a console. I don't tend to think of things like the
Apple ][ as "consoles" because they didn't use a TV as their monitor by
default, which the above systems generally did (there goes my Apple ][
bias again). But really, the Apple ][ fits my description of "console".
The all-in-one dealies like the TRS-80 Model II/III and their ilk would
be "computers" because they have all the basic adjuncts to define an
entire computer in the most generic sense of the word (CPU, keyboard,
display, storage).
Piece-part systems like the IBM, I'd call "systems" because you have a
system consisting of a CPU and peripherals, such as the keyboard, monitor,
disk drives, perhaps a mouse...