A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.” By John Markoff Bill Atkinson, the Apple Computer ...

A computer that processes analog data is known as an analog computer. Analog computers store information in physical quantities in a continuous format and use measurements to perform computation.

The personal computer has been around in some form for another since the release of John Blankenbaker's Kenbak-1 in 1971.

The Apple-1 Computer was developed and conceived by Steve Jobs and Steve 'Woz' Wozniak in the mid-1970s as a complete hobbyist kit. It was also one of the first 'personal computers' you could buy, as ...