Personal computer
A personal computer or PC is usually a microcomputer intended to be used by one person at a time, and appropriate for general purpose tasks such as word processing, programming, sending messages or digital documents to other computers on the network (email), multimedia editing or game play, usually used to run software not written by the user. Unlike minicomputers, a personal computer is often owned by the person using it, indicating a low cost of purchase and ease of operation. The user of a modern personal computer may have significant knowledge of the operating environment and application programs, but is not inevitably interested in programming nor even able to write programs for the computer.