DoomMaster wrote:
To Wain:
I have been working with computers since the first personal computer was released back in 1977, the Apple computer.
Do you enjoy being wrong all of the time? How does it feel? Well, if nothing else, it gets you attention.
I'd recommend having a quick look at
this for a quick lesson in "first personal computers".
Just because the Apple was yours doesn't make it the first. (Hint: some folks who built a little box called the MITS Altair would disagree with you, as well as - now brace yourself -
Commodore! (Witness the TIM-1 and KIM-1 systems).
As a matter of fact, you can go all the way back to 1960 with the Heathkit HC-1 analogue computer if you want to split hairs...but I'll let you off the hook and say you were only off by four years, not seventeen.
Oh, and incidentally, the Apple you purchased in 1977 wasn't even the first Apple. The '77 Apple was an Apple-II. The Apple Computer was released in 1976 - along with many, many other computers that year.
Finally, IBM released the first Personal Computer with the 5100 in September of 1975. Have a gander
here for more information.
(Note: before you refuse to click the link and then proclaim that the IBM-PC wasn't released until 1981, the IBM-PC was model #5150. The model 5100 predated it by six years.)
Eagerly awaiting your reply!
