Personal Computers

Introduction
In today’s society almost every American family owns at least one personal computer. The personal computer technology has grown greatly improving the personal computer industry. Each year more and more improvements are made. Personal computers today are by far superior to personal computers of 40 years ago.
Dimension One
The operation of personal computers made today has grown tremendously from personal computers of 40 years ago. In the late 1970s into the 1980s, computers were developed for household use, offering personal productivity, programming and games. Personal computers were made much larger and more expensive systems were aimed for office and small business use. They were difficult to set-up, difficult to operate, and only had 4k bytes of memory. You would need to run several cords, and wires to set-up all the components, it would only operate in basic formats and was costly to upgrade to an expansion memory adapter. It was less expensive to just by the newest model.
Dimension Two
Nowadays, personal computers are in the workplace, schools, shopping facilities, and almost every household has at least one personal computer in the home. They are a lot more affordable which allows it to be a lot easier to own one. Today’s personal computers are more advanced then they were years ago. They can operate with multiple media for entering programs, for example compact disks, zip disks, and/or a floppy disk. On the other hand, personal computers years ago used cassettes for entering programs. The cassettes were placed into a tape recorder which was bulky and ugly, not to mention the price was outrageous, which made it almost impossible for your average person to own one.
Dimension Three
Soon the personal computer would affect the world like a diseased plague. The following website from