David B Teague wrote: > > > > > 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.
FWIW, I have every issue of Byte Magazine, on the shelves behind me, going right back to Vol 1 #1, Sept 1975. I bought the first 3 issuses in person, from the original publisher Wayne Green, at the 1975 Radio Society of Ontario convention in Ottawa. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
