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DVQ was founded in 1981 to pursue various bits of technology that its founders find interesting. For the most part DVQ designs product for other companies, who in turn market and support the products. On occasion DVQ does produce products under its own name, though often the rights to these products are eventually bought by other companies.

The Wonder of the PC Museum In a 50-year career working around computers, Paul Gray managed to pick up many machines dating back to the early years of personal computers. When Gray retired from Claremont Graduate University in 2001, the professor took about 10 computers from his personal collection and used them as the basis for a PC Museum at the university.

Computers have become one of the most important parts of modern society. Nearly everything that is modern required or uses computer related technology in some way. But how did computers as we know them come to exist? Did someone sitting in his lab just one day say, “Aha! I’ve got it! The computer!”? Well, no, that is not how this happened. Rather, many years of brilliant ideas and research from many different individuals contributed to modern computing. The field is constantly evolving at a pace unlike anything before it as techniques are polished and new breakthroughs are made.

Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is a mainframe timesharing operating system begun in 1965 and used until 2000. Multics began as a research project and was an important influence on operating system development. The system became a commercial product sold by Honeywell to education, government, and industry. This web site describes the hardware, software, and people that made the system the best thing of its kind for many years.

After the grand success of Music Player iPod and Smart Phone iPhone, Apple launched another revolutionary product — the iPad, Tablet PC in 2010. Most people believe that this is one of the finest innovation of Apple, but wait a min! Tablet PCs were only rediscovered by Steve Jobs and Team by giving a cool look and enhanced functionality.

Most people think of the tablet computer as being a recent invention, in reality they are the result of many years of development and evolution. That being said the tablets that are appearing on the market these days are quite a bit different than the early versions. While tablets have a long history their future is open to debate.

Industry interest in a potential iPad competitor from Microsoft didn't stop the company from scrapping development and production of its prototype project Courier. And reports say HP plans to kill its project with Microsoft to develop a tablet form factor running Windows 7, dubbed Slate.

The Tablet PC intro starts with the huge success of the Kindle eBook reader and the mobile phone revolution, which was initiated by the release of the iPhone that triggered the development of Tablet PCs in the first place.

The new "iSlate" or perhaps "iBook" product that observers hope to see from Apple is thought to include a new graphical interface based on the multitouch foundation of the iPhone, and is anticipated to physically fit between the pocket-sized form factor of the iPhone and iPod touch and the 13-inch notebooks of Apple's Mac lineup.

Tablets are coming of age. It's been a long journey, longer than you might think, but you know a piece of technology has reached a key moment when your non-geeky friends start talking about it and, more importantly, owning and using it. That's what's happened to tablets, which in the past year have gone from a piece of kit generally used only by technophiles to something owned by people of all ages and with all levels of technical ability.