Author: Ala

When you think of personal computers and how they shape our lives you probably think about Apple products or “Windows PCs.” They are, after all, the two main PCs that consumers purchase today. While some of these machines are nothing short of amazing, it was a computer released on July 23, 1985 that paved the way for personal computers in households. The Amiga 1000 may have been at the more expensive end of the scale when it was released in 1985 as it cost $1,295, or $2,900 in today’s money, yet it is a machine that shaped the personal...

Computers are part of our everyday lives. It is difficult to imagine life without a computer, laptop, tablet or even a smartphone that can all but do the job of a personal computer. Yet computers have not actually being around for that long in the grand scheme of things. “PC” is an initialism for “personal computer” and in its broadest definition it means a computer that can be operated by one person. Using this term, the first persona computer arrived in 1946 and was called the ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. It was heralded as a “Great...