(10-26-2011, 03:56 PM)Oceania Wrote: MAC IS A PERSONAL COMPUTER!
i had had accommodated you, saying that 'in case you meant computers that people use personally', havent i.
Quote:oh my fritters. Uni, i am SAYING that they LED TO MACHINES THAT USE THE INTERNET. AND THAT LED TO SOCIAL NETWORKING. NGAHAQHAQHAHAH MY VULCAN MIND IS MELTING!!!
and what does that mean ? steve jobs invented 'computers that people personally use' ?
steve jobs did not invent personal computers as in 'computers people use personally'. nor did he had any major impact on how those evolved. all of the technologies were there and used widely before he ascended into apple again in 1997 september. this includes the mouse, this includes user-friendly oses, this includes anything you can name. period.
excuse me but you dont know enough on this matter. why not take some time to read the links i conveniently provided you, in order to learn about the computer history you are talking about in such uninformed fashion ?
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below is the history of the personal computer as in 'computers that people use personally'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
Quote:Early personal computers — generally called microcomputers — were sold often in kit form and in limited volumes, and were of interest mostly to hobbyists and technicians. Minimal programming was done with toggle switches to enter instructions, and output was provided by front panel lamps. Practical use required adding peripherals such as keyboards, computer displays, disk drives, and printers. Micral N was the earliest commercial, non-kit microcomputer based on a microprocessor, the Intel 8008. It was built starting in 1972 and about 90,000 units were sold. In 1976 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold the Apple I computer circuit board, which was fully prepared and contained about 30 chips. The first successfully mass marketed personal computer was the Commodore PET introduced in January 1977. It was soon followed by the Apple II (usually referred to as the "Apple ][") in June 1977, and the TRS-80 from Radio Shack in November 1977. Mass-market ready-assembled computers allowed a wider range of people to use computers, focusing more on software applications and less on development of the processor hardware.
Through the late 1970s and into the 1980s, computers were further developed for household use, with software for personal productivity, programming and games. One such machine, the Commodore 64, totaled 17 million units sold, making it the best-selling single personal computer model of all time.[4] Somewhat larger and more expensive systems (although still low-cost compared with minicomputers and mainframes) were aimed at office and small business use. Workstations are characterized by high-performance processors and graphics displays, with large local disk storage, networking capability, and running under a multitasking operating system.
IBM 5150 as of 1981
Eventually, due to the influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market, personal computers and home computers lost any technical distinction. Business computers acquired color graphics capability and sound, and home computers and game systems users used the same processors and operating systems as office workers. Mass-market computers had graphics capabilities and memory comparable to dedicated workstations of a few years before. Even local area networking, originally a way to allow business computers to share expensive mass storage and peripherals, became a standard feature of personal computers used at home.
In 1982 "The Computer" was named Machine of the Year by Time Magazine
the computer that brought computing to homes was commodore 64. apple was just another kit being sold back in 1970s, and then one of the hundreds then. it was not different than other kits in its variance, and used the same principles the others used. jobs or wozniak have no more input in evolution of computers, than not only the hundreds of others who sold computer kits, but also tens of thousands of other tech people who made technology and shaped computers, and actually early internet, through the BBSes. jobs/wozniak/apple actually doesnt need any mention in this wikipedia article than hundreds of other kits, but it is wikipedia, impossible to prevent the extremely popular cultural conditionings from leaking in.
back in early 1980s ibm pc compatible format merged the home computer - personal computer format. this was 16 years before steve jobs returned to apple after getting kicked back, and starting with the apple cult personality thing which caused you to be so misinformed about history.