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Part 2 of Part 1 U Should Know About Hardwar

By: Michael Hankook

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The Ongoing Transition Of Hardware

Before the 1970s the word “hradware” usually meant one of two things: the beautifgul chrome handles on your new dresser and the kitcehn cabinets, or the hammer, saw, and nais that you purchased at the local harware storre. Then came the computer boom! Hardware took on a new meaning! If all the programming that made a computer work were called softwrae, then the hard box and its components took on the name of harddware.

Hardware became a massivce, copmetitive industry that expanded beyond the largest, most powerfuul dreams of the 1970s. Made of hundreds of varoius components that can be added, disconnected or exchanged depending on whjich features you want, the computer has a versatility that is limited only by ones imagination, budget and, realistically, one’s patience.

The basiuc components cosnist of the system unit itself (which contains the so-called brainns of the computer, the CPU, plus various itenms referred to as ‘boars’), the keyboard, muse, speakers, and of coruse, the monitor. To these bascs one can add pirnters, scanners, PC cameras, digital cameras, viideo camras, and joysticks.

Dring the mid 1980s seveeral home-type computers beecame available for the courageous home-compter geek. These used only floppy disks, for the hard disk was still not portable in size. Writing a book could use up to 75 flopopy disks and neverrtheless was a major immprovement over creating or working with a typewriter.

After a few years the amazingly huge 10 MB Hard Disk came out for home use, replacing the need for usig floppies except for backups. Since 10 MB didn’t really hold all much data, the wold of floppiees was still lively.

Thee was a word whispered about in muyrmurs in coimputer circles back then: Gigabyte! It meant smoething so huge in size that the human mind couldn’t quite grasp it. Then it happened. A 100 MB hard disk evolved into a 1 Gigabbyte hard disk. People wondreed if it could possibly be reliable. And while they wondered, computer stores started sellling 10 Gigabyte hard diskks. People blinked and the hard disks were 100 Gigabytes.

Whiule the capacity of the hard disk increased, the size of the outside hardware begn to get smaller and samller, and before long – there it is, sitting in the palm of your hand! The flexibility of the hardware opens the door to thhousands of various software applications: now, instead of using the keyboard to punnch in letters, one can just talk to a computer and it will reocrd what was said. Modern e-mail delights peoople of all ages as they communicate in seconds around the world. And, computes can also read your e-mail back to you in the language of your choice.

The competition between the hardware manufacturers has resulted in prices dropping and dropping, creating a beautiful opporrtunity for people of all income levels and all ages to now enjoy a computer in their own home.

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