The public history of the PC began in August 1981, when IBM first announced �The IBM Personal Computer.� . This was The original PC. The time period for the development of this landmark, legacy product was approximately a year. It must be remembered that IBM was a centralized committee paper top down organization at the time. Everything went by snail mail and paper, communication was slow and lines of communication as well as the necessary and essential corporate approval u...

Psst wanna buy a watch? Wanna save some money? Of course you do. Everyone does. There are a slew factory outlets offering all manner of sales. All of them based on �rock-bottom prices�. Not just one of these at a time but numerous strip malls are dedicated to discount shopping.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting around the Earth and owes its name to Edwin Hubble who made the discovery of galaxies that lay outside the Milky Way as well as for his creation of Hubble�s Law that calculated the rate at which the universe is getting bigger. The Hubble Space Telescope is able to send sharp optical images of very distant objects and has, since being launched in 1990, become astronomy�s most important instrument.

The fundamental idea of the internet first came about in a paper that was published in 1960 by J.C.R. Licklider. In it, he articulated the concept of a wide network of computers, and some of the uses that would arise from such a network. Mr. Licklider had ideas that would shape the powerful tool that we use so frequently in modern times.

For electronic musicians, 1982 was the Year Zero � that was the year that MIDI first came on the market. It was designed as freeware � it was not patented, and was intended as a universal standard usable by any brand, so that MIDI could be used in a studio incorporating components or devices from many different manufacturers. The first of these was called MIDI 1.0, of course. Soon after that, musical instruments with MIDI jacks started appearing.

The advent of the modern Global Positioning System � or GPS � can most often be found on the dashboard of a car. So popular is this technologically advanced mapping system, that newer cars are even being designed with GPS included as a standard feature. But what many fail to realize is that GPS began as much more than a device used by the directionally challenged. GPS began as a revolutionary and promising piece of equipment designed by the United States Government.

Uninformed researchers of computer (computador) history would probably note the first computer in the mid 1930`s. In reality, this history dates nearly 2000 years ago with the invention of the abacus where the user programmed beads using formulated constructs.

It's really amazing that you can get the exact value listening to an audio book while doing your normal chores as you would reading it.

The keyboard is among the most underappreciated and taken for granted component of the Personal Computer (PC) that we use everyday.

Have you tried the helicopter game lately?