Part one of term paper
Computer Tech. ESSAY Xerox, Apple, IBM, and Compaq all played major roles in the development of the Personal Computer, or ³PC,² and the success of Microsoft. Though it may seem so, the computer industry did not just pop-up overnight. It took many years of dedication, hard-work, and most importantly, thievery to turn the personal compute ...

Part two of term paper
... This was the first of many mistakes Xerox would make in the next two decades. So, in 1975, Ed Roberts built the Altair 80800, which is largely regarded as the first PC. However, the Altair really served no real purpose. This left computer-lovers still yearning for the ³perfect² PC...actually, it didn¹t have to be perfect, most ³nerds² just wanted their computer to do SOMETHING. The burning need for a PC was met in 1977, when Apple, a company formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, release ...