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Apple II
Steve Wozniak just had a design one board to plug in and all Apple II's could upgrade to include dish storage. The Apple II is a self-contained unit housed electronics, keyboard and power supply, with basic language in permanent memory. The Apple II has a TV screen to show what you are doing like what we have now. This changed the evolution of the personal computer because in today's computers can be carried around instead of having a modem and a monitor. Link -
Atari 800
The Atari 800 was the third version of the Atari 8-bit line of computers. The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 and manufactured until 1992. There is not that much of a difference between the Atari 8-bit and the Atari 800. This is important because their used to be just a keyboard, but now their is a screen that goes with it. Link -
BBC Micro
During the 1980s the BBC became known as the BBC Computer Literacy Project. The BBC wanted to base its project on a microcomputer capable of performing various tasks which they could then demonstrate in the TV series The Computer Programmer. This is important because like the Atari 800, their was a start of just the keyboard but now their is a screen that helps and makes things a lot easier. Link -
Apple Lisa
The Apple Lisa was the first computer with the GUI which means graphical user interface. It was one of the first personal computers to offer a graphical user interface in a machine aimed at individual business users. Apple Lisa is a personal computer introduced by Apple Computer Inc. on January 19, 1983. This is important because you can see the difference from how the screen was so small and now it is much bigger. Link -
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
Tim Berners-Lee gave Hypertext Markup Language to the World Wide Web which helped people in busniesses to create websites on the world wide web for customers to look at. HTML is used to create electronic documents (called pages) that are displayed on the World Wide Web. Each page contains a series of connections to other pages called hyperlinks. Link -
Wi-Fi Becomes Computer Langage
The term Wi-Fi becomes computing language and users can connect to the internet without wires. Wi-Fi is a technology that allows electronic devices to connect to a wireless LAN network. A WLAN network is usually password protected, but may be open, which allows any device within its range to access the resources of the WLAN network. Link -
Apple Revels the Mac OSX
The Mac OSX provides protected memory architecture and pre-emotive multi-tasking, among other benefits.The Mac OS X is the current series of Unix-based graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. designed to run on Macintosh computers, having been pre-installed on all Macs since 2002. Within the market of desktop, laptop and home computers, and web usage, it is the second most widely used desktop OS after Windows. Link -
64 bit processor AMD's
In computer architecture, 64-bit computing is the use of processors that have data path widths, integer size, and memory address widths of 64 bits. From the software perspective, 64 bit computing means the use of code with 64 bit virtual memory addresses. The term 64 bit describes a generation of computers which 64 bit processors are the norm. Link -
Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla. Corporation. The Mozilla Firefox project was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of Mozilla browser. Since the version 5.0, a rapid release cycle was put into effect, resulting in a new major version release every six weeks on Tuesday. Link -
Apple Introduces Mac book Pro
Apples first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computers. The MacBook Pro is a line of Macintosh portable computers introduced in January 2006 by Apple Inc. now in it's third generation. The MacBook Pro was the second model to be announced in the Apple-Intel transition, after the iMac. It is the high-end model of the MacBook family and is currently produced with 13 and 15 inch screens. A 17 inch version was available for sale in April of 2006. Link -
Microsoft Introduces Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 7 offers the ability to pin application to the task bar. Windows 7 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft. It is a part of the Windows NT family of operating system. Windows 7 was released to manufacturing of July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009, less than three years after the release of its predecessor, Windows Wista. Link -
Apples Unveils the iPad
The iPad changes the way consumers view media and jump starting the dormant tablet computer segment. The iPad is an IOS-based line tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPad was released on April 3, 2010, the most recent iPad models are 9.7-inch iPad Pro released on March 31, 2016. This is important because now their isn't just a computer with a monitor, their is a had held device that can also have a keyboard on the screen. Link -
Google Releases the Chromebook
The Chromebook is a laptop that runs the Google Chrome OS which shows that technology has come a long way to have the Chromebook that you can carry around instead of using a big computer. A Chromebook is a laptop running off of Chrome OS as its operating system. The devices are designed to be used primarily while connected to the internet, with most application and data. Link
