The computer was invented in Iowa
It was during one of my Iowa vacations that I first started to become interested in personal computers. At that time the big thing was the IBM pc with 64k of ram and two diskette drives. It had a green screen and was mostly just used for number crunching and word processing. That didn’t take long to change, before long the AT was announced. With that you got a ten meg hard drive and you could push your memory up past the 640k barrier. They even had this program called Windows 3.1 which let you work on two different things at the same time. Soon came the 386 and that’s when the PC really started to come into it’s own. Hard drives were up in the hundreds of megabit range and the graphics were starting to come into their own. VGA was introduced and with it you could actually have a photograph on your PC look like a photograph rather than some sort of cartoon as in previous versions. You could do true multitasking as processed would continue in the background where as before the processes actually stopped running when you switched applications. Then came the 486 which was really more of a sales gimmick than anything else.
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