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Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« on: May 26, 2010, 08:17:01 AM »
A Trivia Forum... I'll throw out the first question

Who was the inventor of the first Personal Computer?
 

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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2010, 08:47:10 AM »
Well, i would say Ed Roberts, and Bill Yates (the team behind the Altair 8800).

But then you could say it was Sir Clive Sinclair and Jack Tramiel who really brought the computer into the home.

Edit: Well, I say Jack Tramiel, but more like the MOS Technologies guys Jack aquired ;-)
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« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2010, 08:53:44 AM »
I would say Konrad Suze.
BTW his designs were Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) proof.
 

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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2010, 09:28:34 AM »
@Gulliver

He said personal computer.. I wouldn't call Suze's machines personal computers.
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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2010, 09:51:10 AM »
Here is an early personnel computer.
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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2010, 09:54:56 AM »
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Here is an early personnel computer.


If you actually meant "personnel" computer, i guess it might have been used for payroll, but that wasn't the question.

If you meant "personal" computer, I can't imagine many people bought one of these for their own personal use.
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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2010, 09:58:46 AM »
It was indeed used to do the company payroll.
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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2010, 05:32:12 PM »
As far as I know it was... Chuck Peddle
 

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« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2010, 06:45:07 PM »
H. Edward Roberts, Altair 8800:
 

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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2010, 06:53:22 PM »
Everyone is wrong. Time to think outside the confines boys and girls!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/science/30computecnd.html

...it was personal and computed more important things than what most of modern society uses to do with the computers of today.  :laughing:
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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #10 on: May 27, 2010, 07:08:43 PM »
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

What we\'re witnessing is the sad, lonely crowing of that last, doomed cock.
 

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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #11 on: May 27, 2010, 07:37:51 PM »
lol.  Is it really a 'trivia' question when there's no single correct answer?  As far as this question goes (particularly on a forum like this) you might as well ask who invented fire.
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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2010, 07:38:29 PM »
Well before the invention of mechanical and electrical devices, the term "computer" referred to a person hired to perform computations. I doubt anyone knows who the first computer was, let alone the names of the their parents.
 

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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2010, 08:05:43 PM »
Quote from: mknkt;561067
A Trivia Forum... I'll throw out the first question

Who was the inventor of the first Personal Computer?


Well if you found him inside the pile of scrap. He might be worth ebaying too ;)
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Re: Wait..Wait..No..I Got It..
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2010, 08:07:33 PM »
Quote from: Trev;561379
Well before the invention of mechanical and electrical devices, the term "computer" referred to a person hired to perform computations. I doubt anyone knows who the first computer was, let alone the names of the their parents.

First "Personal Computer" that was marketed and you could use in home / office :)