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Many companies are busy developing multi-touch technology for use in personal computers. This development represents a major advance in the ability of computer users to interact in a tactile way wi...
The MacBook Air came out in early 2008 and has been the most successfully sold ultralight notebook computer to date (Others have been thinner and lighter, but did not sell well enough to continue p...
The Mac OS 7.5 included a program that enabled you to play a CD on your computer. Even though the first stereo CD player was made in 1982, computers didn't include them until the mid-90's. This beg...
In 1995 Microsoft began including their Internet Explorer web browser in their Windows operating system. This meant that when people bought computer with Windows on it, it had a web browser built i...
Marc Andreissen created the Netscape Mosaic web browser which quickly became the most widely used web browser for personal computers. From this time on, people became much more interested in browsi...
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau create a program called the World Wide Web and the system through which it can share and view files, including pictures, between networks.
This was the Apple 2c+. The 'c' stood for 'compact' and you were supposed to be able to carry it around. Mr. Nauman typed many college papers on this computer!
The Apple Lisa was the first commercially sold computer that used a graphical user interface (GUI). In other words, you could click on things to manipulate them rather than typing commands.
While Apple computers were very popular for home use, the IBM PC was used in businesses.
The Shugart ST506 5MB Hard Disk Drive, made by Seagate Technologies, was the first internal storage device sold to manufacturers of home computers, such as Apple and IBM. It could store a total of ...
The Apple ][ was the first computer sold to the general public. It was very popular and even had games on it.
The first personal computers did not have a hard drive. To boot up the computer, you had to insert a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk that contained the operating system's files. To save your own files or ru...
The Alto, made by Xerox, was one of the first desktop computers. It was not sold for personal use, but only to businesses and universities. Note the vertical screen, made to resemble how paper is u...
The Xerox Alto's desktop appearance featured tiled windows on a black and white screen.
Gordon E. Moore observed in 1965 that the number of transistors that can be fit into a computer's processor doubles every two years. This has allowed computers to get smaller very quickly as they b...
The first computer mouse was designed by Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute in 1964.
"The 1440 of 1962 was a low-cost system specifically designed to solve the data processing needs of smaller businesses." (www-03.ibm.com) Prior to the 70s, there was no personal computer. Computers...
The first electronic computers were very big and very difficult to program and operate. This one, called the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), was designed and built to do calcu...
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