Type Type of Computer

Posted in Rabu, 15 Desember 2010
by fuad

Computers have penetrated into various sectors in our lives, not just used by the office, academics, students, child-child shall be familiar with this computer. Put simply, the computer can be defined as electronic devices that receive input (to be input from the keyboard, mouse, fingerprint, retina, etc.) and then processed by the processor and displayed on the monitor or in hardcopy (printer). Lots of division or the criteria attached to the computer, here we discuss eight different types of computers.
1. PC or Personal Computer
Consistent with the name of personal computers, the PC is a computer intended for the use of one person or privately owned. Prior to this PC appears, the computer used to be tangible very large, so only owned by a particular company only. The first PC named Altair who diproduki by MITS in 1975.

2. Desktop Computers
The computer that is designed to not be moved, move, or specifically designed to be placed on a table somewhere like work. Computers of this type is very much in the market, especially among universities, offices and companies.

3. Laptops
Formerly the term is different laptop notebook in terms of size, but now the laptop or notebook to refer to the same purpose, namely a portable computer (portable) that integrates directly with a monitor, keyboard, mouse pad / trackbal, processor, harrdisk, memory and other peripherals with a small size and lightweight. Kemampunya even beyond desktop computers and PC ..

4. PDA, Personal Digital Assistants
PDA is a sophisticated computer that uses flash memory instead of storage media. PDAs do not have a keyboard, but uses touch screen technology (touchscreen) as input media. PDAs have very small size, slightly above the size of the mobile phone and can easily carry anywhere.

5. Computer Workstation
Actually Workstation is a desktop computer that has major advantages in terms of processor capability, large memory, and its ability to run applications that require high performance, such as 3-dimensional applications, graphics, multimedia and so forth.

6. Computer Servers
Servers are computers dedicated to providing services to other computers (clients) in a network. Computer server has a powerful processor, large memory and larger hard drive capacity.

7. Mainframe Computers
Is a computer with a large size capable of serving hundreds of application programs simultaneously, supports dozens of different programming languages, capable of storing and accessing the library routine with a large capacity, capable of serving hundreds of transactions simultaneously, even more, and other advantages. This computer is usually serves as a center for data on large corporations. But with the times, the latest computers at this time will gradually be able to compete with the advantages of the mainframe computer. To measure that is being called a mini-computer and smaller size called micro-computer.

8. Wearable Computer
Wearable Computer is the latest development in the field of computers, ie computers together just like clothing. These applications commonly use such as email, database, multimedia, calendar integrates directly with watches, mobile phones or in other forms. So the computer has been incorporated into our lives everyday.