Today, HCLTech operates in more than 60 countries and employs over 220,000 people. From building microcomputers in India to helping global enterprises with AI, cloud and digital transformation, it has come a long way.

Back in 1976, HCL (Hindustan Computers Limited) started as a hardware and computing company founded by Shiv Nadar sir & 5 other engineers. Before many global computing giants entered India, HCL had already developed one of India's first microcomputers.

Yes! True for almost every facet of our modern world. If civilization crashed now, transistors would functionally go away. AI, microcomputers, calculators, even AM radios would become fabulous relics of a vanished world. 1980's autos running on alcohol would rule the highways

I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it is described as a toy. Just like microcomputers.

LOL. I started before microcomputers existed. The first "computer" I programmed was this huge 1m x 1m "tabletop minicomputer" from HP (not the HP 3000). You had to pre-tokenise your BASIC into BASIC interpreter opcodes and variable numbers, then fill in mark-sense cards as input.

ive only heard of this device today but it's one of the most moe microcomputers i've ever seen in my life

Although it was not IBM's first portable computer, the PC Convertible was their first laptop-style machine! #KevinToms #IBMConvertible #IBM #Thinkpad #80sComputers #portablecomputers #laptop #laptopcomputers #microcomputers #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers

4/5 The microelectronics thread — and why sanctions enforcement matters on the battlefield. Colonel Zaruba was explicit: Russian defence industry successes in drone and missile modernisation are significantly enabled by access to foreign components — microchips and microcomputers flowing through grey import channels despite sanctions. The AI elements integrated into updated Shahed variants. The guidance precision improvements in the Kh-101. The EW resistance devices on Geran-2. All dependent on foreign microelectronics. Ukraine’s experts called directly on Ukrainian officials and diplomats to work with foreign counterparts to close these supply channels. The connection between a chip manufactured abroad and a missile hitting a Ukrainian apartment building runs through grey import networks that sanctions have not yet fully blocked. Ukraine already identified all Kalibr electronics manufacturers and handed the data to sanctions authorities. The same forensic work is ongoing across the broader Russian aerial strike arsenal.

Russia is not standing still. Ukraine intercepts up to 90% of Russian aerial attack weapons. So Russia is engineering its way around that 90%. But here is what makes that engineering possible: Western components. Microchips. Microcomputers. Moving through grey import channels — supplied, knowingly or not, by companies in countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia. Without that foreign microelectronics supply chain, Russia could not integrate AI guidance into its Shahed variants. Could not build EW resistance into its drones. Could not improve Kh-101 precision. Could not modernise its strike arsenal at the pace it is moving. Ukraine’s State Research Institute for Testing and Certification of Armaments just briefed domestic and foreign journalists on exactly what Russian engineers have been building with those components — and what every air defence planner and sanctions enforcement agency needs to understand. 🧵👇

Microcomputers, most definitely. I'm not sue how you appreciate consoles without the games, though.

New UNBELIEVABLY Powerful Microcomputers Will Make Data Centers OBSOLETE! w/ Hakeem Anwar 249.00 box The Jetson nano super no data leaving your house costs 2.00 a month in electricity

First, it was originally designed for Mac. Second, WHY THE FUCK NO ONE IN THIS SIMULATION NOTICES OBVIOUS IRONY OF MICROCOMPUTER SOFTWARE MAKING SOFTWARE NOT FOR MICROCOMPUTERS!? WHY IN THE FUCKING WORLD WITH BILLIONS ON WINDOWS AND DIRECTX YOU WOULDN'T MAKE PC PORTS TOO!?

1985 saw the release of the first laptop device by Japanese manufacturer Toshiba: the T1100! #KevinToms #ToshibaT1100 #Toshiba #JapaneseComputers #80sComputers #portablecomputers #laptop #laptopcomputers #microcomputers #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers

“Welcome to microcomputers lab. In this course you’ll have to do assignments using C. If you don’t know C, grab the K&R and make sure you’ve read and understood it before you deliver the homework. Deadline is 4 weeks from now”

microcomputers went out with the hula hoop in the 70s ... WTF... must have gotten educated at the Minn. Learing Center

Bitcoin isn't a toy, it's the hardest form of money ever created. Microcomputers paved the way for today's tech giants—Bitcoin's doing the same for finance.

I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it is described as a toy. Just like microcomputers.

A number of outstanding portable computers were released in 1984, including the "forefather of smartwatches" - the Seiko UC-2000! #KevinToms #SeikoUC2000 #Seiko #80sComputers #portablecomputers #laptop #laptopcomputers #microcomputers #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers

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