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| Thread ID: 29362 | 2003-01-17 23:07:00 | Q - What was the first personal computer? | Babe Ruth (416) | Press F1 |
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| 114791 | 2003-01-18 04:42:00 | > For those too young to have heard of the Commodore 64 > (and its predecessor the VIC-20 which I had clean > forgotten) take a look at LOL, that takes me back Billy......... to the days when both Brian Snell and Eclipse Radio in Dunedin stocked those computers. I was heavily into stereo systems in those days, and used laugh at the nutters who huddled round those computers talking some strange gobbledegook language |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 114792 | 2003-01-18 08:59:00 | > OK we're almost there: > > From the Web site I was sent... > "...The question is obviously highly ambiguous. > What does first mean? How about personal? Even > computer is an ambiguous term! ... Let's define > personal computer as a computer having the following > attributes: > * It must be a digital computer.[/i] > * It must be largely automatic. > * It must be programmable by the end-user. > * It must be accessible, either as a commercially > manufactured product, > as a commercially available kit, or as widely > y published kit plans. > * It must be small enough to be transportable by an > average person. > * It must be inexpensive enough to be affordable by > the average professional. > * It must be simple enough to use that it requires no > special training beyond > an instruction manual. > Cheers, Babe. > > P.S. The answer(s) shortly... ummm so going by those requirements you need the software and the hardware. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 114793 | 2003-01-19 01:45:00 | I think I've still got all the issues of EA with that series. :D If you want to see some of these, or test your knowledge of the old machines (www.pbs.org). There's another one about the Internet (www.pbs.org). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 114794 | 2003-01-20 06:11:00 | Out of interest, the first Portable Personal Computer (legtop) was by IBM. it was the size of a large sewing machine case and had an attached keyboard, Plasma-Monochrome (Orangey) CRT screen and 2x 5 1/4" Floppy drives andsomething like a 10MB MFM HDD. Amazingly enough the computer when I got it also had a locally made EMS RAM ISA Card (up to 1MB RAM). Apart from weighing a ton and being completely self-contained, it was the start to a wave in portability. In my now regrets I converted it to a 386 with IDE HDD by butchering an ISA slot down to 8-bit instead of 16-bit with a hacksaw & pliers. It did work fr a while. If it was kept it would be a real museum piece now. |
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