Jack D. Lewis wrote:
Lisi Reisz wrote the following on 2/13/2008 4:27 PM:
Sorry to quibble, but the first PC wasn't launched until August 12,
1981. So it can't be _over_ 30 years!!
My ability to _remember_ the history of computers is very
distressing. Well, at least I can say that I don't remember
Colossus, tho' I do ante-date it. :-(
Lisi
I suppose it depends on what you call a PC. My first experience was in
1979 with a State-of-the-art, 16 KB mem, Trash-80. I had ample storage
on my 8-inch floppies that would let me store a whopping 360 KB on a
double sided disk.
These are my recollections:
There was a "PC" that one could buy in kit form that ran an 8080 was
available much earlier than the dates mentioned. I believe this was in
1974 or 1975. IBM and DEC had small desk top machines that had glass
teletype terminals that were the equivalent of the PC but not a one chip
processor, much earlier than this.
See http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121598.htm for a better
history. The machine I recall was an Altair, available in 1975, and in
1976 the Apple I single circuit board computer. The Apple II followed
in 1977, and the IIe in 1982.
The TRS 80 came out in this time frame. In 1981-1983 I managed a network
of Apple II+ machines that had distributed storage: a HUGE 10 MB hard
disk with 1 MB partitions available to each of 10 Apples. The Corvus
Constellation is what it was called.
Thirty years is entirely possible.
David Teague
Who started in this field in 1957 on the IBM 650 Minicomputer.
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