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Alan Kay holding the mockup of his Dynabook concept in 2008. The history of the laptop follows closely behind the development of the personal computer itself. A "personal, portable information manipulator" was imagined by Alan Kay at Xerox PARC in 1968, [7] and described in his 1972 paper as the "Dynabook". [8]
Some of the most common forms of mobile computing devices are as given below: Portable computers, compact, lightweight units including a full character set keyboard and primarily intended as hosts for software that may be parameterized, such as laptops/desktops, smartphones/tablets, etc.
A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...
PDP-11 CPU board. Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, and computer case.
Inspiron (/ ˈ ɪ n s p ɪr ɒ n / IN-spirr-on, formerly stylized as inspiron) was a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers, desktop computers and all-in-one computers sold by Dell. [1]
HTC Kangaroo, Bluebird and Peacock Palm-size PCs from the late 1990s. The Pocket PC was an evolution from prior calculator-sized computers. Keystroke-programmable calculators which could do simple business and scientific applications were available by the 1970s.
A Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC. The first UMPCs on the market were AMtek's T700 and Samsung's Q1.. The AMtek T700 was sold in the US as the TabletKiosk eo v7110, agoPC ago7, and Azentek GB-810, in Europe as the PaceBlade EasyBook P7 and its Label Origami, and in Australia the TabletKiosk eo v7110 and the Pioneer DreamBook UMPC 700 and in Japan the PBJ SmartCaddie.
The Commodore 64 was one of the most popular microcomputers of its era, and is the best-selling model of home computers of all time. [1] Raspberry Pi, a popular modern-class microcomputer