Posts Tagged ‘personal computer’

The Past and Present of Computers

Computer (computador) is an appliance which can manipulate data in accordance with a list of instructions. It is a type of data processing system.

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It Was IBM Not Silicon Valley That Created the Modern Computer Industry and Market

It is hard to imagine life without the ubiquitous computer the ordinary “PC”. Yet although we think of early computers and “Silicon Valley” as being upstarts in their back yard garages it was the market stalwart IBM not the “innovators” who laid the basis and standards of today’s computers that grace all our desks.

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Modern Computers

We are in the year 2008 and in this day and age almost everyone uses computers. Even little children know what a computer is and it wouldn’t be a surprise if they knew how to use one either. We live in a very technologically advanced world that we could not seem to imagine living back to the time when computers do not exist. Having computers was considered to be a luxury but today it has become more of a necessity. Computers are being used everywhere and for everything. It can be seen in school, at work, at home and anywhere else you could possibly imagine. It is used for research, entertainment, communication and in every field of work there is. Having a computer makes us do thing faster and easier. It allows us to do tasks that would take hours to do manually with a simple click of a button. If majority of people has a computer – may it be a laptop computer, desktop or notebook pc; are you part of that majority?

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