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HP 9845C, the Glossary

The HP 9845C from Hewlett-Packard was one of the first desktop computers to be equipped with a color display and light pen for design and illustration work.^[1]

AMD Am2900

Am2900 is a family of integrated circuits (ICs) created in 1975 by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

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Bit slicing is a technique for constructing a processor from modules of processors of smaller bit width, for the purpose of increasing the word length; in theory to make an arbitrary n-bit central processing unit (CPU).

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DC100

DC100 (also known as DC100A) is a tape cartridge format that was co-developed by Hewlett-Packard and 3M.

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Desktop computer

A desktop computer (often abbreviated desktop) is a personal computer designed for regular use at a stationary location on or near a desk (as opposed to a portable computer) due to its size and power requirements.

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Endianness

''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift, the novel from which the term was coined In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising addresses) in computer memory, counting only byte significance compared to earliness.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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HP 9800 series

The HP 9800 is a family of what were initially called programmable calculators and later desktop computers that were made by Hewlett-Packard, replacing their first HP 9100 calculator. HP 9845C and HP 9800 series are hP calculators.

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Kilobyte

The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Light pen

A light pen is a computer input device in the form of a light-sensitive wand used in conjunction with a computer's cathode-ray tube (CRT) display.

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Line Drawing System-1

LDS-1 (Line Drawing System-1) was a calligraphic (vector, rather than raster) display processor and display device created by Evans & Sutherland in 1969.

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Microcode

In processor design, microcode serves as an intermediary layer situated between the central processing unit (CPU) hardware and the programmer-visible instruction set architecture of a computer, also known as its machine code.

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Vector graphics

Vector graphics are a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves and polygons.

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WarGames

WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy.

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16-bit computing

16-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 16-bit microprocessors. HP 9845C and 16-bit computing are 16-bit computers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_9845C