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For some years after that, the building was used by the Detroit Institute of Technology. [3] The building is part of Wayne State University, and has been used in part as an incubator for tech start-up firms known as the Metropolitan Center for High Technology. [4] Offices for some Wayne State departments are located in this building. [5]
SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer) demonstrated at US NBS in Washington, DC – was the first fully functional stored-program computer in the U.S. May 1950: UK The Pilot ACE computer, with 800 vacuum tubes, and mercury delay lines for its main memory, became operational on 10 May 1950 at the National Physical Laboratory near London.
Third-generation computers were offered well into the 1990s; for example the IBM ES9000 9X2 announced April 1994 [30] used 5,960 ECL chips to make a 10-way processor. [31] Other third-generation computers offered in the 1990s included the DEC VAX 9000 (1989), built from ECL gate arrays and custom chips, [32] and the Cray T90 (1995).
ComputerLand was a widespread chain of retail computer stores during the early years of the microcomputer revolution, and was one of the outlets (along with Computer City and Sears) chosen to introduce the IBM PC in 1981. The first ComputerLand opened in 1976, and the chain eventually included about 800 stores by 1985.
Key home computers in the early part of the decade predominantly use processors developed in the 1970s. Versions of the 6502, first released in 1975, powered the Commodore 64, Apple II, BBC Micro, and Atari 8-bit computers. The 8-bit Zilog Z80 (1976) is at the core of the ZX Spectrum, MSX systems and many others.
Despite surviving a pandemic, other Detroit retail store owners also had a reckoning. In early 2022, Hugh, the design housewares, accessories and furniture shop in Midtown, closed .
At 250,000 square feet, the Canton store is the largest in metro Detroit, according to Meijer. On Saturday, the Canton store team will present a $5,000 donation to the Plymouth/Canton Optimists Club.
The owners of a Detroit beer store and bar with an unusual name, 8 Degrees Plato, said Monday on social media they plan to retire and close their business at the end of the year, a move that many ...