Development of Computers and Technology

Computers in some form are in almost everything these days. From Toasters to Televisions, just about all electronic things has some form of processor in them. This is a very large change from the way it used to be, when a computer that would take up an entire room and weighed tons of pounds has the same amount of power as a scientific calculator. The changes that computers have undergone in the last 40 years have …

…'s, computers haven't gotten much different, aside from being faster, smaller and more user friendly. The base architecture of the computer itself is fundementally the same. New improvements from the 80's on have been more "Comfort Stuff", those being sound cards (For hi-quality sound and music), CD-ROMs (large storage capicity disks), bigger monitors and faster video cards. Computers have come a long way, but there has not really been alot of vast technological improvements, architecture-wise.