PERSONAL COMPUTER

Presented by,
Aditya Kumar
Srijon Moitra
Twinkle Saharia
Rahul Basak
 personal computer

Definition
 A personal computer is
computer that can perform all
of its inputs, output
processing, and storage
activates by itself.
HISTORY OF PERSONAL COMPUTER
ERA
The first truly computers appeared in the 1970’s namely XEROX alto, MITS Altair 8800
and Apple I and Apple II.
 The coming of IBM PC is considered as the beginning of the computer ERA and was
adopted by American personnel’s.
 In the beginning the DOS system a text based command language was used and after that
WINDOWS operating system took over and became the most common personal
computer.
 Proliferation of PC’s in the 1980’s and early 1990’s launched a spare of personal desktop
productivity software tools which included word processors, spreadsheets, electronic
presentation software and small data management programmes valuable both home and
corporate users and in the 1990’s these were linked to networks to make the working and
usage more efficient.
 Type of personal computer
 1.Desktop –Any PC that is designed to be
placed on a desk and not for portability is
called a desktop.
 2.Laptop – a laptop computer is a type of
personal computer
 3.Notebooks – notebook computers are
very light in weights as compared to laptop
computer
 4.Netbook – it is an informal
classification of personal computer.
 5.Tablet PC – It is a mobile computer
which is largest than PDA or a mobile
phone
 6.Personal Digital Assistant – PDA is a
device which can combines telephone, fax,
computing as well as networking features.
 GENERATIONS OF COMPUTER
The five generations of computer starts in 1940 with vacuum tube circuitry and goes to the present day and
beyond with artificial intelligence. The major developments have resulted in increasingly smaller, cheaper,
more powerful and more efficient computing devices.
First generation: Vacuum tube (1940-1956)
The first computers used vacuum tubes for circuity and magnetic drums for memory, and were often
enormous, taking up entire room. They relied on machine language, the lowest level programming language
understood by computers, to perform operations, and they could only solve one problem at a time. The
UNIVAC and ENIAC computers are examples of first generation computing devices.
Second generation: Transistors( 1956- 1963)
The transistor was far superior to the vacuum tube, allowing computers to become smaller, cheaper, more
energy efficient and more reliable than the first generations computer. They moved from the cryptic binary
machine language to symbolic, or assembly, languages, which allowed programmers to specify instructions in
words.
Third generation: Integrated circuits (1964- 1971)
Transistors were miniaturized and placed on silicon chips called semiconductors which increased the speed
and efficiency of the computers. Users interacted with keyboards and monitors and interfaced with an
operating system.
 GENERATIONS OF COMPUTER
 Fourth generation : Microprocessors (1971- present)
The microprocessors brought thousands of integrated circuits onto a single silicon chip.
The small computers began more powerful and they were linked together to form
networks which led to the development of the internet.
 Fifth generation : Artificial Intelligence ( Present and beyond)
Fifth generation computing devices are based on artificial intelligence which is still in
development. The use of parallel processing and superconductors is helping to make
artificial intelligence a reality. This generation aims to develop devices that respond to
natural language input and are capable of learning and self organization.
 Part of personal computer

Input Output Processing

 Keyboard  Monitor  CPU
 Mouse  Spiker  GPU
 Microphone  Headphone  ROM
 Webcam  RAM