Part 1 of Essay
Computer Tech. ESSAY Xerox, Apple, IBM, and Compaq all played major roles in the development of the Personal Computer, or ³PC,² and the success of Microsoft. Though it may seem so, the computer industry did not just pop-up overnight. It took many years of dedication, hard-work, and most importantly, thievery to turn th ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... ³nerds² just wanted their computer to do SOMETHING. The burning need for a PC was met in 1977, when Apple, a company formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, released it¹s Apple II. Now the nerds were satisfied, but that wasn¹t enough. In order to catapult the PC in to a big-time product, Apple needed to make it marketable to the average Joe. This was made possible by Visical, the home spread sheet. The Apple II was now a true-blue product. In order to compete with Apple¹s success, IBM needed something ....