Some articles on systems, user, computer systems, computers, users:
... During the relevant period, Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc ... was a value-added reseller marketing 'single-user' computer systems (known at the time as micro-computers) ... These 'single-user' computer systems consolidated software from multiple vendors into a single package tailored to the needs of various end-users ...
Famous quotes containing the words systems, user and/or computer:
“The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematising the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray’s Anatomy.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“A worker may be the hammer’s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
“What, then, is the basic difference between today’s computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to see but not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern—a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”
—Rudolf Arnheim (b. 1904)