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Specially designed for individuals, a personal computer is so called because of its size, capabilities, price, and usage. This term was popularized by Byte Magazine and also Apple. Apple popularized this term with the advent of Apple II in the market during the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Later on this term was popularized by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer. Personal computers are also known by the name of Home Computers. At times, the computers which run on Microsoft Windows as the operating system are also attributed the name of personal computer although mistakenly.Before the microprocessor came into being in the early 1970s, computers were generally large and costly systems which were basically owned by large corporate houses, government agencies, universities and other such similar institutions.
Earlier to the advent of the microprocessor, the end users of the computer often did not interact with the machine directly but would prepare tasks for the machine on off line equipment such as card punches instead.
A number of assignments which are meant to be for the computer would be gathered and processed in batch mode. Users were able to collect the results after the assigned task has been complete. It could even take quite some hours or even a few days between submitting a job to the computing center and receiving the output. By the middle 1960s, a more interactive form of using computers developed commercially. Multiple computer terminals allow many people to share the use of one mainframe computer processor. Some examples of early mini computers which might be regarded as personal computer would include the LINC and PDP-8, VAX and larger mini computers from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Data General, Prime Computer.
These computers were very large in size when compared to today's standard computer size. If categorized keeping in mind the size and portability, personal computers would fall under the following sub heads:
  • Desktop computers
  • Laptop or notebooks
  • Personal Digital assistants (PDA)
  • Portable computers
  • Tablet computers
  • Wearable computers


The different components of a personal computer would include the motherboard, CPU (Central Processing Unit), Main memory, mass storage, Video card
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