PC Vs Mac

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tablished as a telecommunications tool as the world’s first modems began to be put to use. Texas Instruments released the first 16-bit PC although it was terribly designed. The following year, 1980, the PC industry really blew up. Among all the new releases the most notable was Radio Shacks Color Computer, even though it flopped in the sales department because of its complete incompatibility with the industry at the time. It is roughly estimated that there were one million PC’s in the U.S. at this time. A genius invention was made available for purchase in 1981 when the worlds first portable computers came out. The first one was the size of a suitcase, had a small 5” screen, and sold for about $1900. The biggest event of this year was when IBM decided to jump into the PC industry. They took everything that had been introduced to the PC and improved on it greatly. Not only did they improve everything but they put it all together into one personal computer. Time magazine described 1982 as “The Year of the Computer”, bec...