On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 14:23:12 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: ><http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-modder- >hacks-1980s-ibm-pc-to-play-full-motion-color-video> > >This represents itself to be the first PC ever. I do not know if this >is true or not. You can make up your own mind.
As others have noted, there were plenty of earlier examples. (Thanks, John Giltner, for your interesting post.) Both Byte and Dr. Dobb's Journal were in publication for years before the IBM PC was announced. Both magazines primarily covered inexpensive personal computing. You could find dozens of examples of computers in their pages before the announcement of the PBM PC. Just a few: MITS Altair IMSAI Apple 1 and II Osborne Commodore PET KIM-1 Commodore VIC-20 TRS-80 Atari 800 -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
