Before selecting an all-in-one computer model, first become comfortable with the classical desktop model of computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse. This would provide a better appreciation of the desktop model. It is easier to repair.
The reasons why new computers get bad ratings when they are indeed so much better than before is because desktop computers can not be carried anywhere you want like laptops do.
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There are several companies that produce mini desktop computers. You can try Apple products or Mac Mini. There are some negative thoughts about mini desktop computers, so perhaps it should be checked out before a purchase is made.
The Apollo Guidance Computer, which took us to the moon was an embedded computer long before any desktop computer existed. There were missile guidance computers before that (e.g. Bomark & Minuteman I) that were embedded.
An HP Pavilion dv6 desktop computer costs 1100 US dollars. For the other models of HP Pavilion desktop computers the prices are also in the 1000 US dollars area.
They could only perform basic calculations.
Computers were no sold to the public in the 1950's, so you couldn't buy one. Desktop computers did not exist and neither did things like mice, software, or keyboards for a computer. EM ac the first computer filled an entire room with the machines that made it run. It used magnetic tape and key punch cards for programs and couldn't go online. This was only used by the government. It won't be until another 20+ years before there is a desktop computer.
DTP or Desktop Publishing refers to the process of layout and design on a computer for print materials such as magazines, newspapers, invitations, posters, books, etc. So before computers it was done manually on typewriters or hand drawn & painted, on art boards, poster boards, canvases, etc. For mass productions the designs would then be printed with the usual printing methods (a complicated process of inking and rolling the original designs). It really wasn't that long ago we were doing this. It all changed in the late 1970's or early 1980's when we began using computers for desktop publishing.
Electro-Mechanical Computers were used before first generation of computers.
The same as modern computers! Word processing, spreadsheets, games, photo storage, desktop publishing, graphic drawing etc - in fact anything that modern computers are used for except things specific to the internet (like email, webcams, surfing websites etc)
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No. He died before Google existed and before computers.