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    A personal computer, often referred to as a PC or simply computer, is a computer designed for individual use. It is typically used for tasks such as word...
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    of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one...
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    The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the...
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    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...
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  • share of personal computer vendors includes desktop computers, laptop computers, and netbooks but excludes mobile devices, such as tablet computers that do...
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  • Personal Computer is the debut studio album by Silicon, a solo project of New Zealand musician Kody Nielson, released in August 2015. The album marks...
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    Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random-access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer...
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    The IBM Personal Computer XT (model 5160, often shortened to PC/XT) is the second computer in the IBM Personal Computer line, released on March 8, 1983...
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    industrial robots. Computers are at the core of general-purpose devices such as personal computers and mobile devices such as smartphones. Computers power the...
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    A personal computer game, also known as a computer game, or abbreviated PC game, is a video game played on a personal computer (PC). The term PC game has...
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  • Personal Computer World (PCW) (February 1978 - June 2009) was the first British computer magazine. Although for at least the last decade it contained a...
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    A desktop computer, often abbreviated as desktop, is a personal computer designed for regular use at a stationary location on or near a desk (as opposed...
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    computer virus that was released in its first form on 19 January 1986, and is considered to be the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer...
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    A handheld computer, also called a palmtop computer, is a term that has variously been used to describe a small-sized personal computer (PC) typically...
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    the largest single-user systems (microcomputers or personal computers). The term supermini computer or simply supermini was used to distinguish more powerful...
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    An all-in-one computer (also called an AIO or all-in-one PC) is a type of personal computer that integrates the computer components, such as the CPU, monitor...
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    Workstations formerly offered higher performance than mainstream personal computers, especially in CPU, graphics, memory, and multitasking. Workstations...
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    The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, spanned multiple models in its first generation (including the PCjr, the Portable PC, the XT...
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    The DAI personal computer is an early home computer from the Belgian company Data Applications International. The DAI came to market in 1980. It provided...
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    The IBM Portable Personal Computer 5155 model 68 is an early portable computer developed by IBM after the success of the suitcase-size Compaq Portable...
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    much smaller physical size. While early PDAs connected to a user's personal computer via serial ports and other proprietary connections[specify], later...
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  • Instruments personal computer, TI PC, TI home computer, and similar phrases may refer to: TI-99/4A and TI-99/4, the first 16-bit home computers (1979–1983)...
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    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...
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    proposal, A personal computer for children of all ages (1972), which outlines functionality similar to that supplied via a laptop computer, or (in some...
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  • non-midrange, personal computer manufacturing divisions into an autonomous wholly owned subsidiary known as the IBM Personal Computer Company (IBM PC...
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    and personal computers. Most large-scale computer-system architectures were established in the 1960s, but they continue to evolve. Mainframe computers are...
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    computers or Wetware is a future technology that replaces the traditional fundamental component of a central processing unit of a desktop or personal...
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    recipes to personal finance to home automation, but these were seldom realized in practice. For example, using a typical 1980s home computer as a home...
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    "Elk Cloner" was the first personal computer virus to appear "in the wild"—that is, outside the single computer or computer lab where it was created. Written...
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    connectors may be used for widely different standards, especially on older personal computer systems, or systems not generally designed according to the current...
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