Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “PCs That Changed Everything”.
We could go for the low-hanging fruit here and talk about the original ibm pc or the first macintosh from 1984, but you already know about those. So instead, let’s talk about five other machines that change the pc market in a big way. Let’S start with the xerox alto, although xerox was already well known as a manufacturer of copiers, their entry into the pc market was extremely impressive, as the alto was the first personal computer, designed with a graphical user interface or gui, and keep in mind. This was all the way back in 1973, eight years before the original ibm, pc and 11 years before the original macintosh, with the latter being the system that really popularized the gui for the mass market. The alto didn’t receive as much attention as it could have because of its high price 32 000, which today would be over a hundred and ten thousand dollars. Nonetheless, it was well ahead of its time, not just due to its desktop-based gui, but also because it had its own hard drive. A 606 by 808 pixel display very high res at the time and even a mouse which wouldn’t become broadly popular until the macintosh came out. Unfortunately, xerox made a big strategic mistake when they decided not to take the altos concepts and make them affordable for home users by the time they realized. This apple had already seized the initiative and xerox computers just faded into obscurity, but before the mac popularized, the gui concept apple had a huge hit in 1977, with the apple ii before the apple ii was released, people tended to think of computers as super expensive machines.
Only used in business or as difficult diy projects just for enthusiasts, the apple ii, went a long way towards changing these perceptions as it sold for less than thirteen hundred dollars, and it came fully assembled and ready to use. But the apple ii wasn’t just appealing because it was cheap and easy. It used programming tricks to enable color on its display without charging the consumer a huge premium. In fact, this became such a defining characteristic of the apple ii that it led apple to change its logo.
To that multicolored bitten fruit, it used until the late 90s the color support, combined with a killer app called the visa calc. The first ever automatic, pc spreadsheet, made it really popular with businesses. Helping the apple ii become one of the best selling personal computers ever moving on. We’Ve got the commodore 64.
and although it sounds like some kind of naval simulator from nintendo, it was actually an early pc that looked a lot like a smaller apple ii, released in 1982. The commodore 64 absolutely crushed the lower end of the pc market. For most of the decade as it was even more affordable than the apple ii at a release, price of just 595, but the low price didn’t mean it was underpowered like the apple ii. It had color graphics, but with better quality, which made it a popular platform for computer games of the time, as well as the demo scene, which was an early computer art movement centered around small av pieces.
The commodore 64 also included a signature. Audio chip called the sound interface device that made it very attractive to electronic musicians, and although it’s haiti came to an end in the late 80s, when the more powerful 32-bit ibm pc compatible started to dominate the market, the commodore 64 still has a very loyal following, But what about laptops? Let’S talk about the compact lte not to be confused with a modern cell network, though, although it wasn’t the first laptop, it was definitely one of the most important it was introduced in 1989, a time where laptops really started to make inroads with professionals, but most were Either bulky or limited in what they could do and the lte changed all of that, as it weighed only 3 kilograms or 6.7 pounds for our friends in the us. It ran a 286 processor and ms-dos and was powerful enough to support windows as well because of its computing muscle and small size. The lte is often considered the first true notebook style laptop since it was, as you guessed it about the same size as a notebook.
The lte also featured a docking station enabling it to entirely replace a desktop computer at a time when doing so really wasn’t all that common. However, even though it had a 2.4 kilobyte per second modem, the compact lte lacked one crucial feature. That’S present in all modern laptops, wi-fi the first consumer laptop to feature it, and our final system of the day was the apple ibook released in 1999. This was the first computer in apple’s main laptop lineup before the macbook debuted, and it originally had a look comparable to the imac g3, which was brightly colored plastic and a rounded aesthetic.
Aside from its looks, the ibooks wi-fi boasted speeds of up to 11 megabits per second, and although this sounds super slow by today’s standards, it was actually pretty amazing for its time as steve jobs famously demonstrated at the launch of it where he passed the ibook through A hula hoop, while he surfed the web to the uh and ah of a rather easily impressed crowd, no wires, come to think of it. Apple events haven’t fundamentally changed in the past two decades, so those are our picks for the five computers that totally change the game. But what do you guys think? Is there a system more deserving of the title? Let us know down in the comments and you might see them in a future episode thanks to corsair for sponsoring today’s video check out the corsair iq 7000x rgb full tower case. It has tempered glass panels and room for up to three 360 millimeter radiators.
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