Ancient History or Not So Ancient
In the beginning, there was a mainframe computer. And it was good as far as we were aware at the time. At this time, computers would barely fit in your garage, let alone in your car. These computers consisted primarily of big, expensive machines used by large organizations to support and facilitate their daily business operations.
Then came the minicomputers, mini only in the sense that they were smaller than the others. You might be able fit one in the back of a pickup truck now. In addition to the size limitation, the practice of timesharing this power increased the accessibility of computing power, but information and processing were still centralized on a few individual machines.
Then the first personal ...
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