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[mknkt]

A Trivia Forum... I'll throw out the first question

Who was the inventor of the first Personal Computer?

[xeron]

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 ;-)

[Gulliver]

I would say Konrad Suze.
BTW his designs were Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) proof.

[xeron]

@Gulliver

He said personal computer.. I wouldn't call Suze's machines personal computers.

[meega]

Here is an early personnel computer.

[xeron]

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.

[meega]

It was indeed used to do the company payroll.

[mknkt]

As far as I know it was... Chuck Peddle

[zipper]

H. Edward Roberts, Altair 8800:

[save2600]

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:

[persia]

Simon?

[abbub]

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.

[Trev]

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.

[Boudicca]

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

[mknkt]

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