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  • Category: Super Computers
  • Description: This was the most power full and fastest computers.
  • Size: They are the size of a room
  • Price: Very Expensive Over TRillions
  • Location: They are found in large business markets
  • Advantage: They can process 1 trillion instruction per second. Used in weather forecasting, military simulation and animation movies

  • Category: Mainframe
  • Description: This was the first type of computer.
  • Size: They are notoriously large, normally the size of a closet
  • Price: Very expensive. Can easily exceed a million dollars.
  • Location: They are most likely to be found in large businesses or government centers.
  • Advantage: It can simultaneously work with hundreds or even thousands of people.


  • Category; Minicomputer
  • Description: The second type of computer.
  • Size: Smaller than a mainframe.
  • Price: Anywhere between $20,000 to $250,000
  • Location: Used in smaller and medium sized businesses
  • Advantage: Can service many users.


  • Category: Microcomputer
  • Description: The third type of computer to emerge (ex. desktops, laptops/notebooks).
  • Size: Designed to be small enough for a single person
  • Price: $500 and up.
  • Location: Offices, homes, virtually anywhere.
  • Advantage: Designed for a single user with a multitude of various types of tasks.
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