By: Mike Wills

 What is a PC?  Brief History  Current Industry Status  Future

Merriam Webster defines a personal computer as:  A general-purpose computer equipped with a microprocessor and designed to run especially commercial software (as a word processor or Internet browser) for an individual user

 Mainframes ◦ Very Large and expensive ◦ Corporations, Government, and Universities ◦ Jobs prepared on punch cards  Could take hours or days to get job results  Minicomputers ◦ Early 60’s ◦ Still large and fairly expensive ◦ Much more convenient

 Combined arithmetic, logic, and control functions into one integrated circuit  Costs and size dropped dramatically  First invented: ◦ Texas Instruments TMS 1000 ◦ September 17, 1971  First commercially available: ◦ Intel 4004 ◦ November 15, 1971

 Brought personal computing into mainstream society ◦ Commodore PET ◦ Apple II ◦ TRS-80

 Commodore64  IBM PC 5150  Apple Macintosh 128k  Microsoft Windows 3.0, 3.1, and 95  Apple iMac, and PowerMac

 Processors ◦ Clock Speeds ◦ Multi-Core ◦ Moore’s law  RAM  Input Devices  Output Devices  Storage

 Google Glass Google Glass  OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator  Samsung Youm Flexible Displays Samsung Youm Flexible Displays

 Laptops and Desktops on the decline

 Apple vs Android

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