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It can seem as if digital magazines have just appeared as an application on the web or Apple's iPad or iPhone, but there have been many attempts at creating such a medium going back decades. This history in the form of a timeline sets out the developments in hardware, software and published product in the UK, which tends to mirror developments in the US and Europe. A separate page also covers digital magazine software developers such as Ceros, Exact Editions and Zinio, who use a 'platform' to turn printed magazines (often from PDF files created in the print production process) into a digital format, sometimes called 'living magazines'.

When discussing about computers and computer hardware there are numerous and various aspects to be taken in account. First of all it is very important for the user to be able to differentiate between computer hardware that includes all the components being seen and touched within the computer and the software which includes the programs being installed within the computer. Another important aspect to be taken in account is to become able to know which components are included within the list of computer hardware and which are their functions and also the way in which they influence the well performance of the computer. Another important aspect to be taken in account and analyzed when trying to present the important elements related to computer hardware is the fact that it is important for certain notes on historical development of computer hardware to be made as well.

Introduction What do people think about computers? Why do they think it? Are they right in thinking it? What is Computer Science `actually' about?

A brief, early history of Xerox PARC and the development of the personal computer.

The year 1996 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the ENIAC computer, the first large-scale general-purpose electronic computer. Built at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, ENIAC is an acronym for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer," but its birth lay in World War II as a classified military project known only as Project PX. The ENIAC is important historically, because it laid the foundations for the modern electronic computing industry. More than any other machine, the ENIAC demonstrated that high-speed digital computing was possible using the then-available vacuum tube technology.

In the 1970s the microprocessors are mostly 8-bit and manufactured with the NMOS technology.

The programmable metallization cell, or PMC, is a new form of non-volatile computer memory being developed at Arizona State University and its spinoff, Axon Technologies. PMC is one of a number of technologies that are being developed to replace the widely used flash memory, providing a combination of longer lifetimes, lower power, and better memory density. Infineon Technologies, who licensed the technology in 2004, refers to it as conductive-bridging RAM, or CBRAM. NEC has a variant called “Nanobridge” and Sony calls their version “electrolytic memory”.

ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated (traditional Chinese:is a multinational computer product manufacturer headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Its product range includes motherboards, laptops, servers and mobile phones. The company also produces components for other manufacturers, including Dell, Falcon Northwest, Hewlett-Packard and Apple Inc..

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards. PCIe has numerous improvements over the aforementioned bus standards, including higher maximum system bus throughput, lower I/O pin count and smaller physical footprint, better performance-scaling for bus devices, a more detailed error detection and reporting mechanism, and native hot plug functionality. More recent revisions of the PCIe standard support hardware I/O virtualization.

Biostar or Biostar Microtech International Corp, is a motherboard manufacturer based in Taiwan, designing and manufacturing of computer hardware products such as motherboards, video cards, barebone computers and industrial PCs, to meet the demands of market development by providing more integrated solutions to customers.