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ACER DESKTOP COMPUTERS
Multitech, which was founded by Stan Shih, his wife Carolyn Yeh, and a group of five others in 1976, and renamed Acer in 1987. It began with eleven employees and $25,000
in capital. Initially, it was primarily a distributor of electronic
parts and a consultant in the use of microprocessor technologies. The
global headquarters is in Hsichih City, Taiwan.
In 2000, Acer spun off its manufacturing operation (as Wistron
Corporation) to focus itself on branding business. In deciding to
support the sales of its product lines through specific marketing
activities that best utilise distribution channels, Acer grew worldwide
while its labour force contracted. In 2002, the pan Acer Group employed
39,000 people supporting dealers and distributors in more than 100
countries. Revenues reached US$12.9 billion that year.
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS - continued (PREV)
A number of analog computers were constructed in ancient and medieval times to perform astronomical calculations. These include the Antikythera mechanism and the astrolab from ancient Greece (c. 150-100 BC). These devices are usually regarded as the first analog computers. Other early versions of mechanical devices used to perform some type of calculations inlcude the Planisphere; some of the inventions of Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (c. AD 1000); the Equatorium of Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-zarqali (c. AD 1015); and the astronomica analog computers of other medieval Muslim astronomers and engineers.
John
Napier (1550–1617) noted that multiplication and division of numbers
can be performed by addition and subtraction, respectively, of
logarithms
of those numbers. While producing the first logarithmic tables Napier
needed to perform many multiplications, and it was at this point that
he designed Napier's bones, an abacus-like device used for
multiplication and division.
Since
real numbers can be represented as distances or intervals on a line,
the slide rule
was invented in the 1620s to allow multiplication and division
operations to be carried out significantly faster than was previously
possible. Slide rules were used by generations of engineers and other
mathematically inclined professional workers, until the invention of
the pocket calculator.
The engineers in the Apollo program during the 1960s, to send a man to the moon, made many of their calculations on slide rules, which were accurate to three or four significant figures.
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