Monday 7 January 2013

The PC Along The Years

The evolution of the computer in time

Your computer or PC is definitely the invention that revolutionized the world of technology and communications. In a computer can perform office work with Microsoft programs, conduct research through the network, designing and building machines using virtual programs control what happens in a company and even to perform tasks in fields as diverse as medicine and music.

In this article we give an overview of the computer developments . We'll see when major changes occurred, in which aspects is evolved as a computer today.

The computers we know today, and we use in the office, at home or at the university are called personal computers and came into use in the late seventies. The computer models that hit the market was the PET 2001 Commodore produced by the company.

This computer was equipped with RAM , the monitor was black and white, a cassette recorder, and a calculator-style keyboard. In this same year was marketed the TRS 80, with characteristics similar to the Commodore PET but with a larger monitor was actually adapted from a TV.

Evolution of the PC in the 80's:

At the beginning of the eighties boom starts called personal computers. These computers were put on sale in the late seventies but it was not until the early eighties that were sold on a large scale.

Among the most important we can mention the computers Apple II , were characterized by the integrated keyboard to the monitor, was the first computer to include double tray for floppy disks in order to save data.

In 1981 it launched the IBM 5150 , was one of the first computers to introduce color to graphics, the same year he launched the Xerox Star computer company Xerox 8010, the first to include the mouse. In 1983 hits the market the TRS 80 Model 100 manufactured by Kyocera , the first notebook style computer. In the year 1985 goes on sale the Commodore Amiga 1000, one of the first computers with multimedia skills.

Evolution of the PC in the 90's :

In 1992 the company launches the IBM Thinkpad , one of the first laptops. By the beginning of this decade also included CD ROM readers on all computers, which would replacing floppy disks. In 1994, Apple is now selling series of computer Power Macintosh , which were widely used by professionals in the printing industry.

At the end of the nineties all positions included USB computers, which facilitated the connectivity of digital equipment such as video cameras and music players. This also led to the mass production of USB for data transfer.

Evolution of the PC in the new millennium :
One of the most salient features since 2000 is the use of wireless hardware on computers and use to connect to wireless internet (Wi - Fi) . Today laptops and tablets have wireless cards that allow moving contact internet from anywhere in the world.

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