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The History and Future of Computers With the advances in computer technology it is now possible for more and more Canadians to have personal computers in their homes. With breakthroughs in computer processing speeds and with computer storage capacity, the combination of this with the reduced size of the computer have allowed for even the smallest apartment to hold a computer. In the past the only places to have computers were military institutes and some …

…through quartz. The integrated circuit made in 1958 consisted of three components placed on a silicon disc that was made of quartz. As technology advanced more and more components were fit onto indiviual chips and this resulted in smaller and smaller computers. There was also an operating system created during this stage that allowed for many programs to be run at once, with one central program that had the ability to monitor and coordinate computer memory.