Dossier especial: La historia de las computadoras personales

Excelente e imperdible crónica de Tom’s Hardware, sobre el nacimiento y la evolución de las computadoras. Una lástima la falta de ilustraciones, pero no deja de ser un muy buen compendio y línea de tiempo de eventos relevantes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1.The First Electronic Computers
• 2.From Tubes To Transistors
• 3.Birth Of The Personal Computer

• 4.The IBM Personal Computer
• 5.Mechanical To Modern

Tom's Hardware and Que Publishing are partnering up to give you four chapters from Scott Mueller's Upgrading And Repairing PCs, 20th Edition. We're also giving away copies of the book to 10 lucky Tom's Hardware readers. To enter, please fill out the contest form.The first chapter we're making available is from the beginning of Scott's book, covering the development of the PC. From the humble beginnings of mechanical adding machines to today's multi-core processors, we recount the events and innovations that took us where we are today and wrap it up with a convenient timetable showing the complete history of the PC!

In the days to come, we'll also present comprehensive looks at Magnetic Storage Principles, Local Area Networking, and Power Supplies.

Fuente y nota completa: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/upgrade-repair-pc,3000.html#xtor=RSS-182