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PC : 30 Years of Computing and Counting

The Rise of Microprocessors and E-commerce

The development in the field of personal computing has been so significant that now every shop , every trade and every home has a computer . The traffic signals , the hospitals , the work place and all such terminals , big or small , have been computerized . The future is forecasted to be even more technologically advanced than it already is Computers are said to become smaller than they already are . With emerging technologies like , Tablet PCs , Artificial Intelligence , Nano Technology , and Virtual

Reality , world will be in a faster lane (Future of Computers . But where did it all begin ? The eighties era , with the post World War II trauma and the post socio and economic recession , saw the dawn of many transformations , including the rise of America with Ronald Reagan , gaining his leadership in the United States as the President . Racism started to vanish and women started to take up new roles in the society (Ehrman , 2006 . But the most important transformation that was seen in the eighties era , was in the field of personal computing . With the onset of fourth generation of Computers the era of Personal Computing started to rise with high elevation . The fourth generation of computers gave rise to Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI , pertaining to the integration of innumerable transistors mounted on a single chip . In the year 1981 , IBM introduced its first Personal Computer (PC ) bringing about a revolution in the Computer Industry . Thus began...