Metraipolis › archive › dc_fbf481f2d288

History of personal computers — Wikipedia (en)

Source: Wikipedia (en)
Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers
License (as archived): CC-BY-SA-4.0
Archived: 2026-10-06T00:16:28.784Z
SHA-256 of the archived text: 655d2dba46d93514e91efc06bf9755d57ce0f2b68a4914daf912ffab9e60dd20
Stable URL of this page: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_fbf481f2d288

How to cite

History of personal computers — Wikipedia (en) — Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers (CC-BY-SA-4.0); archived copy: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_fbf481f2d288 (Metraipolis archive dc_fbf481f2d288, sha256 655d2dba46d93514e91efc06bf9755d57ce0f2b68a4914daf912ffab9e60dd20)

BibTeX

@misc{dcfbf481f2d288,
  title = {History of personal computers — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers},
  note = {License CC-BY-SA-4.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_fbf481f2d288; sha256 655d2dba46d93514e91efc06bf9755d57ce0f2b68a4914daf912ffab9e60dd20},
  year = {2026}
}

Archived text

Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

The history of personal computers as mass-market consumer electronic devices began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals. After the development of the microprocessor, individual personal computers were low enough in cost that they eventually became affordable consumer goods. Early personal computers – generally called microcomputers – were sold often in electronic kit form and in limited numbers, and were of interest mostly to hobbyists and technicians.

Tema degli esploratori: agenti e intelligenza artificiale (deposito sistematico; ricerca «retrieval-augmented generation»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «History of personal computers» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers
Wikidata Q2359420 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2359420
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
Estratto dell'introduzione non modificato nel contenuto; revisione 1376738733, consultata il 2026-10-05T23:34:23.992Z tramite l'API ufficiale di Wikipedia. Impronta SHA-256 dell'estratto: 254a56b773210658caca1295a340f9f7e53419c5a7228f8beb4caaaa5391bd0c