The Computer This report is about the impact that the personal computer has made during the past 10 years on the the community.
It is a report that includes detailed information about the personal computer and the way it has worked its way into a lot of peoples everyday lives. It includes information about the Internet and how it has shaped peoples life from just a hobby and into an obsession. It includes detailed information about its history, especially the time in which it was first developed. There is information about future possibilities for the computer about who it could be the future and destroy the future. There is a description on how it is developed and an in-depth look at how it works.
A personal computer is a machine that lets you do do just about everything you could think of. You can do some basic word-processing and spreadsheets as well as 'Surf the Internet'. You can play the latest computer games by yourself as well as against someone from across the other side of the world. It can store databases which could contain information that is kept by police for easier records or you could just use it for your own family history.
The basic structure of a computer is a keyboard, a moniter, a and case which holds all the componets to make a computer run like a Hard drive, a Motherboard, and a Video card. There are many other additions you can make to this such as a Modem, a Joystick, and a Mouse. The personal computer was developed during the year 1945 by the Americans to help them decode enemy secret codes during the Second World War. At this time the computers were huge and only used by governments because they were as big as room. This was because the main thing they used were vacuum valves which made the computer enormous. They also never had anything to hold any memory so they couldn't actually be classed as a true computer.
The introduction of a way to store a file was brought around in the year 1954. The computer did not have a big impact on the community until about the year 1985 Commodore released a gange of computers called the Commodore 64 and also another Commodore computer called the Vic 20 which was released in the year 1982. When Intel saw the Commodore 64's success it released its brand new 386 processor in the year 1985. Though the 386 was easily the better and faster processor the Commodore 64 seemed to be the computer getting all the attention because of it's lower prices so therefore it appealed to a much wider group of people.
The 386 was only in the price range of the mega-rich and agencies. The effect of the Commodore 64 was enormous because it seemed to turn people away from throwing away their money on Arcade games such as Pac-man and Pong when they could be playing them in the conveiniance of their own homes and without leaving a dent in the change pocket. This marked the fall of arcade and the rise of the computer. Arcade companies such as Namco were forced to make computer games from then if they were to make any money.
The most specific event to help the rise of the home computer was the invention of the transistor. Before the transistor the information could only travel through a vacuum valve. Then the transistor came along and because of its size it reduced the size of a computer enormously. With the transistor being smaller they could fit more into a small space and with the more transistors ther was more activity within them which in turn made them faster.
Another worthy event was in the year 1954 when the first writable disk was invented. It was a great achievment because instead of just being able to work out sums and display them they were able to store some of the current information for future reference. This way the computer didn't have to do so much work and therefore it made them evn quicker at doing sums and cracking codes.
