Types of Computer

Types of Computer

• Based on signal: Two types :

• 1.Analog Computer: It follows analog signal .Ex. Speedometer 2.Digital Computer: It follows digital signal .Ex. Personal computer
• Based on capacity:
• 1.Super computer :It’s largest computer in size and capacity. It may have more than thousand processors. It is used in weather forecasting, complicated calculations and research ez.
• 2.Mainframe Computer : less are in size and capacity than the super computer. It is used in organizations where many users need to work with same data. It is found in railway, air ticket reservation and in large organization like bank ez.
• 3. Minicompurter: it’s smaller in size and capacity than supercomputer and mainframe computer. It’s used in organizations for the serving the input and output needs of 100 users at a time. Usually minicomputer can be found in many organizations as a server computer.
• 4.Workstation:Special computer used for scientist and engineers is called workstation

• 5.Micro computer : Micro computer is used according to size and capacity it’s the smallest .Ex. Personal computer.

Other types of computer

• Laptop computer: Special computer which has the same capacity as microcomputer

• PDA: Personal Digital Assistant. It’s used for taking notes, tracking data, agenda ez.It’s also called palmtop.
• Tablet PC: It’s created by Microsoft .It’s a special computer which has same functionality as microcomputer.