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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PC game (redirect from Personal computer games)
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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Handheld PC (redirect from Handheld Personal Computer)
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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Workstation (redirect from Personal workstation)
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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History of computing hardware (redirect from Computer generation)
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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