... disc, which was made from quartz. Scientists later managed to fit even more components on a single chip called a semiconductor. As a result, computers became ever smaller as more components were squeezed onto the chip. Another development included the use of an operating system that allowed machines to run many different programs at ... was down - in size, that is. Large-scale integration could fit hundreds of components onto one chip. By the 1980's, very large scale integration squeezed hundreds of thousands of components onto a chip. Ultra-large scale integration increased that number...

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... awe. Still, up till 1972, computers were only available to schools, businesses, and wealthy people who could afford them. It was in 1972 when Intel came out with the 8008 chip and it was able to process 8-bits of data, which was enough to convey numbers and and letters of the alphabet. Then in 1977, competition started in the computer world ... ...

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... . 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. Computers were introduced into postsecondary academic institutions at the beginning of the 1980s to identify the technical needs of tomorrow's society and to let students ... ...

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