The First Desktop Computer, Part One
Thursday, March 5th, 2009If you are searching for a cheap desktop computer, you are not alone. Personal computers were made possibly by two major technological innovations in the microelectronics field, and have since become an essential part of both home, and workplace culture and usage. The first major innovation was the integrated circuit, or IC, which allowed for the miniaturization of computer memory circuits, greatly reducing the size of the computer itself, and was developed in 1959. The second, the microprocessor, was developed in 1971, and reduced the size of a computers CPU, or central processing unit, to the size of a single, tiny silicon chip.
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