The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer...

used with personal computers. The term home computer has also been used, primarily in the late 1970s and 1980s. The advent of personal computers and the...

The IBM Personal Computer AT (model 5170, abbreviated as IBM AT or PC/AT) was released in 1984 as the fourth model in the IBM Personal Computer line, following...

present-day personal computers share architectural features in common with the original IBM PC, including the Intel-based Mac computers manufactured...

The history of tablet computers and the associated special operating software is an example of pen computing technology, and thus the development of tablets...

personal computer (PC), in the 1970s. The cost of computers gradually became so low that personal computers by the 1990s, and then mobile computers (smartphones...

The history of laptops describes the efforts, begun in the 1970s, to build small, portable personal computers that combine the components, inputs, outputs...

mid-1980s but declining by the early 1990s. Early personal computers, like the original IBM Personal Computer, were enclosed in a "desktop case", horizontally...

through digital distribution on online service providers. Personal computers as well as general computer software are considered synonymous with IBM PC compatible...

pioneers in computer science History of computing History of computing hardware History of software History of personal computers Timeline of algorithms...

three decades, Apple Computer was predominantly a manufacturer of personal computers, including the Apple II, Macintosh, and Power Mac lines, but it...

programming. Home computers were usually sold already manufactured in stylish metal or plastic enclosures. However, some home computers also came as commercial...

inception in 1978 'personal computer' was still a generic term (the Apple II, PET 2001 and TRS-80 had been launched as personal computers in 1977.) The magazine...

consumption of computers. These advances led to the miniaturized personal computer (PC) in the 1970s, starting with home computers and desktop computers, followed...

Brantford Opera House. Over fifty interactive personal computers were on display, from a wide variety of manufacturers, including Apple, Atari, Commodore...

"hand-held" device compatible with desktop IBM personal computers of the time was the Atari Portfolio of 1989; such devices were often called "Palmtop...

CP/M, one of the first operating systems for personal computers, they used as reference their experience with the IBM mainframe computers and the operating...

may constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers...

multiple bits simultaneously in parallel. Throughout most of the history of personal computers, data has been transferred through serial ports to devices...

Computers can be classified, or typed, in many ways. Some common classifications of computers are given below. Microcomputers became the most common type...

calculator, yet the name of the first state-manufactured personal computers points to its production as a PC or Pravetz Computers (правя, pravja - make,...

and vacuum tubes enabled the construction of the first computers. Building on Babbage's design, relay computers were built by George Stibitz at Bell Laboratories...

Cultural History of Personal Computers". Archived from the original on October 5, 1999. Friedman, Ted (2005). "Chapter 5: 1984". Electric Dreams: Computers in...

The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California. The museum presents stories and artifacts of Silicon...

industrial robots. Computers are at the core of general-purpose devices such as personal computers and mobile devices such as smartphones. Computers power the...

as an overview of and topical guide to computers: Computers – programmable machines designed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical...

floppy disk). This list excludes smartphones, personal digital assistants, pocket computers, laptop computers, programmable calculators and pure video game...

PC games at high standards. They typically differ from mainstream personal computers by using high-performance graphics cards, a high core-count CPU with...

and to secure the funding to continue. It was reported that 10,000 of the computers had been sold. In 2012, PC Magazine called the AT&T EO 440, "the first...

and by computers running CP/M. After IBM introduced the IBM PC, it was not until 1984 that IBM PC and clones became the dominant computers. In 1983...