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The Computer Inside-Glossary
I remember in the early 80's when Commodore, and Texas Instruments made personal computers that were 16KB, 64KB and 128KB memory computers. They had their own operating systems or basic language. You could enter command codes to program the to perform programs with sound, color, graphics; and save the programs to a cassette or a 5 1/4 floppy disk. There were software casettes, and floppy disks to run programs that were made by the manufactures, to run games and other software programs, but the pictures were low resolution and looked like cartoon drawings, and the sounds were mostly beeping sounds. The TI-99 had a speach emulator module that could make some game cartridges able to talk.
Computers in 85 the IBM compatible computers came out, then Windows 3.1 was invented in 92 and used a 80386 or higher processor; and programs could be stored in file areas, and saved on a Hard drive. The first IBM compatible computers only used 2MB or more memory. They could us 2400 Baud speed modems.
Then in 95, Windows 95 came out and was available in color, with a graphics card. I was 24MB ram to 64MB ram. The CRT moniters changed from VGA to SVGA, and had 14" and 15" screens. The hard drive capacity was able to use up to 2GB for the Windows computers. The computer used a CD player that was 2-24x speed, to play and load to the computer, faster; and the computer also had a 1.44MB disk drive. They could use 28k and 56k Baud modems, and new high speed cable modems that came out, later. If you ran large programs you could run out of hard drive space. It had many computer games, learning and entertainment software that were designed to play on it.
In 98, computers had Windows 98, that could use 258MB memory, and have life like color picture graphics. A new type of CPU called Pentium came out that were about 100MHz to to 200MHz, and they could also play TV, with a TV tuner card. The Pentium 200MMX and 233MMX CPU came out that were able to make the computer much faster, and run higher graphic games.
Around the year 2000, Windows 2000 and Windows ME came out. They could use 10GB, or more hard drives; the computers changed to use up to 2Gig memory. The computers could Play DVD Movies.
In the year 2004, Windows XP came out and they could do multimedia, read and write to CD and DVD disks; that was replacing the floppy disks. The computers were more sophisticated and became entertainment systems. 100GB and 250GB hard drives, and high resolution LCD screens became popular for these computers.
Around 2007 today, windows Vista, came out that could run programs faster, than Windows XP. These computers require 1GB memory, and 1GB hard drives, they can play HDTV with a HDTV tuner.
As each new computer came out their speed and hard drive storage increased so better Windows Operating Systems could be used, to make the computer work and perform faster, to do more operations and programs.
