WOW.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Minicomputer - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer

   Data General Nova, serial number 1, on display at the Computer History Museum. A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a type of smaller general-purpose computer developed in the mid-1960s [1] [2] and sold at a much lower price than mainframe [3] and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors. In a 1970 survey, The New York Times ...

3. Small appliance - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_appliance

   Small appliances in a kitchen: a food processor, a waffle iron, a coffee maker, and an electric kettle Glowing filaments of a modern 2-slice toaster. A small domestic appliance, also known as a small electric appliance or minor appliance or simply a small appliance, small domestic or small electric, is a portable or semi-portable machine, generally used on table-tops, counter-tops or other ...

4. Device driver - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver

   Input/output. v. t. e. In computing, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton. [1] A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing to know ...

5. Desktop computer - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_computer

   A computer lab with desktop PCs with flat-panel monitors. A desktop computer (often abbreviated desktop [1]) is a personal computer designed for regular use at a stationary location on or near a desk (as opposed to a portable computer) due to its size and power requirements. The most common configuration has a case that houses the power supply ...

6. USB - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB

   The Mini-USB connectors (Mini-A, Mini-B, Mini-AB) were introduced for mobile devices, but they were quickly replaced by the thinner Micro-USB connectors (Micro-A, Micro-B, Micro-AB). The Type-C connector, also known as USB-C , is not exclusive to USB, is the only current standard for USB, is required for USB4, and is required by other standards ...

7. Olivetti computers - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_computers

   Olivetti computers. The Olivetti company, an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines, was founded as a typewriter manufacturer by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 in the Turin commune of Ivrea, Italy. Olivetti was a pioneer in computer development, starting with ...