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28 Jaar Intersoft Belgium : een overzicht

Het begin, 1980, Frank Claessens start een nieuwe firma die groothandel software maakt. Multi user was er vanaf de eerste dag gebruikt.

Dit was op MAI hardware platform

Dit ging niet via normale diskettes zoals nu maar dit waren nog grote tapes.

Nota; Links ziet u ook de oude MAI printer. Een van onze klanten heeft deze nog altijd staan en print af en toe nog lijsten af.

Toen al waren er ook portables, de MAI S10

Deze had 2 diskette stations; hier de specificaties :

The MAI (Management Assistance Inc.) Basic Four System S/10 (1982) is an office computer, built around the Z80 processor. There are two double-sided, MFM encoded, 96 track-per-inch, 622K 5.25" floppy drives; our machine also has the optional external 20M hard disk.
One ODT (Office Display Terminal) can be connected to the S/10. Both units have the same appearance and each use a Z80 processor (clock 4.6 MHz, 64K RAM) for display control. In fact the S/10 is just an ODT with the addition of a second circuit assembly, having its own Z80 with 64K RAM, and two floppy diskette drives. The terminal screens can accomodate 24 or 28 lines of 80 or 132 characters.
The system operates under CP/M or the proprietary BB/M operating system.

Kostprijs toen : +- 12.500,00 Euro of 500.000,00 BEF

In 1981 begon ook de PC zijn opmars te maken

Lotus 123; De eerste spreadsheet maakte zijn opmars in 1982. Deze had 1 diskette nodig.

Nu heeft u minstens 1 CDROM of DVDROM nodig

De toekomst : geen installatie media; enkel de applicatie via internet opstarten; Dit kan u nu al met de MWO applicatie; Contacteer ons om u ter overtuigen...

Year	Event
1980	IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. The pair buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS.
1980	IBM hires Microsoft to develop versions of BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal for the PC being developed by IBM.
1980	Microsoft licenses Unix and starts to develop a PC version, XENIX.
1980	The programming language FORTRAN 77 is created.
1980	The first Tandy Color computer is introduced.
1980	AST is founded.
1980	FIC is founded.
1980	Iomega is established.
1980	Quantum is founded.
1981	MS-DOS 1.0 was released August, 1981.
1981	American National Standards Institute more commonly known as ANSI was founded.
1981	IBM joins the computer race with its IBM PC, which runs the new MS-DOS operating system.
1981	Kermit is developed at the Columbia University in New York
1981	Xerox introduces the graphical Star workstation. This computer greatly influences the development of Apple’s future computer models, Lisa and Macintosh, as well as Microsoft’s Windows.
1981	VHDL is proposed and begins development
1981	Hayes Introduces the Smartmodem 300 with its standard setting AT command set and a operating speed of 300 bits per second.
1981	Adam Osborne introduces the Osborne I, the first successful portable computer, which weighs 25 pounds.
1981	Hewlett-Packard Superchip the first 32-bit chip is introduced.
1981	Commodore ships the VIC-20, which later becomes the world’s most popular computer costing only $299.95.

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