What Is A PC

What exactly is a PC (Personal Computer)? Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary describes it like this:

Main Entry: personal computer
Function: noun
: a general-purpose computer equipped with a microprocessor and designed to run especially commercial software (as a word processor or World Wide Web browser) for an individual user

I describe it simply as an oversized calculator. There are many scary internal components to a PC that may try to hurt you or control your mind, but the microprocessor is the heart of the PC. All the microprocessor does is calculate mathematical problems, just like a calculator. Every single thing you see on your monitor is an answer to a mathematical equation. From every letter to every color they are all just answers that the microprocessor has calculated. That doesn’t seem too scary now does it?

There are 4 main parts that a user can see without opening the PC. Fist is the monitor – that is how you view your data. Then you have a keyboard and mouse that help you manipulate your data. The monitor, keyboard, and mouse are all considered peripherals (external devices). Finally after all that you have your PC. The main box all alone this is your PC, nothing else, not the monitor, not the keyboard, or the mouse.

Most non technical people call the PC the processor or main processor which is WRONG. As mentioned earlier the processor or microprocessor (both the same in PC’s) is internal. So now you can correct all your friends and relatives when thy call their PC’s a processor.

One last thing, the computer will not really try to control your mind no matter what you have learned from other web sites.