BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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It was designed for use by corporations
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It was designed for use in people’s homes
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It allows users to communicate with one another online
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It could perform more complex mathematical calculations
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Detailed explanation-1: -Unlike other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60+ chips. However, to make a working computer, users still had to add a case, power supply transformers, power switch, ASCII keyboard, and composite video display.
Detailed explanation-2: -During his keynote speech at the Macworld Expo on January 9, 2007, Jobs announced that Apple Computer, Inc. would thereafter be known as “Apple Inc.", because the company had shifted its emphasis from computers to consumer electronics. This event also saw the announcement of the iPhone and the Apple TV.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Apple-1 was the first Apple product to be sold. It marked the start of the personal computer industry. It was the first personal computer that came with a warranty. “It was guaranteed to work, ” Cohen says.
Detailed explanation-4: -But perhaps Mac’s broader impact was that it introduced to the world of computing graphical user interfaces, the mouse and trackpads for navigation, and multimedia computing. It took us out of the dark ages of DOS into the brighter era of easy to use computing that, eventually brought personal computing to the masses.