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First International Computer, Inc. (FIC) is a Taiwanese computer and components manufacturer, that designs and manufactures computer products and electronic components for other electronics equipment manufacturers worldwide. The company's products include motherboards, embedded computing systems, graphics cards, PCs, and notebook computers. FIC is publicly listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE 3701), founded in 1980 by Dr. Ming-Jen Chien, in Taipei, Taiwan.

Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents."[1] Wired magazine called it the "longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry".[2] The first attempt at implementation began in 1960, but it was not until 1998 that an implementation was released, and this was incomplete.

Vector-06C (Russian: Вектор-06Ц) is a home computer that was designed and mass produced in USSR in the late 1980s.

This is the list of Soviet computer systems. The Russian abbreviation EVM (ЭВМ), present in some of the names below, means “электронная вычислительная машина”, literally “electronic computing machine.”

BESM (БЭСМ) is the name of a series of Soviet mainframe computers built in 1950-1960s. The name is an acronym for "Bolshaya Elektronno-Schetnaya Mashina" ("Большая Электронно-Счётная Машина"), literally "Large Electronically Computing Machine". The series began as a successor to MESM ("Malaya Elektronno-Schetnaya Mashina", "Small Electronically Computing Machine"). MESM was built between 1948 and 1951 and was one of the first electronic computers produced in the continental Europe.

TickIT is a quality-management certification program for software development, supported primarily by the United Kingdom and Swedish software industries through UKAS and SWEDAC respectively. The TickIT scheme has been updated to become TickITplus, a new website TickITplus is now available.

The Amstrad CPC (short for Colour Personal Computer) is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.

From Abacus to Valve The history of the calculating machines has very old origins, the first realized instrument to execute calculus dates back to 2000 B.C., it was the abacus, which was used in the old China, and then also by the Greeks and by the Romans.

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier.

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. It also has evolved to include a command-line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications. PHP can be deployed on most web servers and as a standalone interpreter, on almost every operating system and platform free of charge. A competitor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) server-side script engine and similar languages, PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.