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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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