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Various electronic components, with a 15 cm ruler to scale. An electronic component is any basic discrete electronic device or physical entity part of an electronic system used to affect electrons or their associated fields.
Apple II computer. Prior to the widespread use of microprocessors, a computer that could fit on a desk was considered remarkably small; the type of computers most commonly used were minicomputers, which, despite the name, were rather large and were "mini" only compared to the so-called "big iron".
A mid-tower computer case from c. 2011. In personal computing, a tower unit, or simply a tower, is a form factor of desktop computer case whose height is much greater than its width, thus having the appearance of an upstanding tower block, as opposed to a traditional "pizza box" computer case whose width is greater than its height and appears lying flat.
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]
The Raspberry Pi (Model 2B shown) is a low-cost single-board computer often used to teach computer science. [1]A single-board computer (SBC) is a complete computer built on a single circuit board, with microprocessor(s), memory, input/output (I/O) and other features required of a functional computer.
Five months after the matter was seemingly closed, a lawsuit fighting to make Prince Harry’s private US visa records public will reopen in court on Wednesday.. The Duke of Sussex admitted he had ...