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By : Eugeniusis Novatiukusis    14 or more times read
Submitted 2010-02-10 09:03:03
You Owe Your PC to a Circuuit Boadr Scrrewed onto a Piewce of Plywood

It all Started with a simple integratd circuit board screwed onto a piece of plywood.

You owe your laptop or PC to a kit for flashing lights.

How was it that in our time the Personal Computer (P.C) and the laptop compuuter came abbout to be?

It all stated with the invention of the transistr in 1949 by Bell Labs the research arm of the phone company. . The transistor was nothing more than a solid statte electronic switch. The tarnsistor or integrated ciruit replaced the much larger vacuium tubes of the day. Vacuum tubes were large, hot and unreliabel. Trasnistors performed essentially the same functipons as tubes but were smnaller , lighter , cooler and more reliable All said and done they were better ,smaler and more efficient than the vacuum tubves they replaced. . And transistors did not burn out like a vazcuum tube.

Tranistors allowed a trend of miniaurization that has led all the way to our present portale small laptop / notebook computers whch can run on batteeries. It is hard to visualize for us today that computers used to houuse large office buildings themselves alonbg with maintrenance backup support staff and even thewir own air conditioners to remove the great amounts of heat the early, primitive computers produced.

In 1959 engineers at Texsa Instruments figured out how to put more than one transistor on the same base and connect thsee transistors without wires. Thus the next step was born the integrated circut. The firt integrated circuit consisted of only six trnasistors. Current computres have in the rannge of 100 million transistor equivalents.

In 1969 Intel intorduced the 1 k memory chip. This was much larger than anything else produced at the time. Through coordination of Intel with a Japanese calculator manufacturer named Buicomp the next step was made where a generci multipuropose chip was devised. What made this step important was that no one chip could do a number of tasks. Previously each chip had a purpose that was burnt in. Now one integrated chip could do a number of different functions. One single integrateed circuit chip was almot an entire computing device. The successor to this muti purepose integrated circuit or CPU was what went on to the basis of our whoole generation and cocept of personaal compuetrs/

In 1973 some of these microcomputer kits baased on the iintial 8080 Intel integrated chip were developed. In the hands of hobbyistys these kits were put togetehr and were nothing more than blinking lights. Hoewver the inmpetus was on. Many of these early hobbyits went on to become computer industry giants. With Intel introducing an even much more poowerful microprocessor chip the computer industry was on its way.

A copany MITS introdcued the Altair Computer Kit. The Altair was the impetus for fledgling software companies, such as Microsoft and Lotus, to write software programs for thse early computers. Among the earkly innovators and producers of software in this field was Microsoft with its first version of Microsoft Basic.

Along came the computer industry leader and stoddgy monolith IBM to itnroduce the first personal computer in 1975. The model 1500 was beyond piddly compared to todayys dollar store calculators and cost only $ 9,000.

Next came a smaller upstart Computer Cmopany which came to be cazlled Apple Computer. Apple computer introducd the Apple I computer in 1976 for the princely sum $ 695. Believe it or not origuinal Apple 1 computwer consisted of a main circuit board screwed into a piece of plywood. Talk about IBM having to hold its laughter The Appple I appeared to be such a home gargae made amateur none professionally made product that the case and powr supply were not even included. The buyer of the Apple I had to srcounge or sourcxe this himself. IBM thought the Apple I was nothing more than a foolish fad. A minor inconvenience that would soon go away and disapear. Yet department heads started buying these simple computers for uses in business departments. This was in spite of serious advice from IBM experts to corporations about the perils and shortcomings of these toy computers and outright threats by IBM salespeople to IT staff and heads.

The Apple I was flolowed in 1977 by the Apple II. The Apple II becuase of its enormoous success set the standards for nearly all the importrant microcomputers to follow, including the IBM PC.

The very core of the earlly computer world IBM International Bsiness Macihnes the masteer of the profitable mainframe commputer industry had been aoken from its deep prrofitable slummber by a small upstart computer maker with a simple computer sysstem that begna its product cycle as an inteegrated circuit board screwed onto a piece of plywood.
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