A microcomputer based system for automated pattern digitization and editing
T. J. Pavliscak, G. W. Stowell, Mike Bailey · 1978
Since the first microcomputer was produced in 1969 by Intel Corporation to support the functions of an intelligent terminal, the complexion of digital computers has changed radically. Microcomputers have been successfully applied to a wide variety of dedicated tasks requiring relatively slow calculation speeds and limited numeric accuracy.