The Computer Revolution

The Computer Revolution

If I were to make a history book of the years from 1981 to 1996,
I would put computers on the cover. Computers, you may ask?, Yes computers, because if there were suddenly no computers on the world, there would be total chaos. People could not; communicate, commute, make business transactions, purchase things, or do most things in their daily routine, because power plants use computers to control the production of electricity.
Computers have evolved extreme rapidly in the past fifteen years.
Ten years ago, all that you could do with a computer, was primarily make mathematical calculations and type documents, but doing that required typing in a series of complex codes that took a great deal of training to learn. Then the
Apple computer company took this complex computer language and evolved it to a simpler system of computer language using words that made sense in their context.
This system was called BASIC. BASIC was a major development in the computer industry, because it made computers accessible to the average American. This helped greatly in proving that computers were no longer just toys and they had a very useful purpose. Most people still felt the cost was too great for a glorified typewriter.
Several years after they introduction of the BASIC system, Apple
introduc...