who made the first pc?

Answer 1

The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (yeah Xerox, the one of the photocopies), in 1974, was the first personal computer.
Before this there were some very big computers that weren't used at home, because they spent a lot of energy, dispersed a lot of warn and your house wouldn't hold it.

It was called "Xerox Alto" (great name).

Answer 2

In July of 1980, IBM representatives met for the first time with Microsoft's Bill Gates to talk about writing an operating system for IBM's new hush-hush "personal" computer. IBM had been observing the growing personal computer market for some time. They had already made one dismal attempt to crack the market with their IBM 5100. At one point, IBM considered buying the fledgling game company Atari to commandeer Atari's early line of personal computers. However, IBM decided to stick with making their own personal computer line and developed a brand new operating system to go with. The secret plans were referred to as "Project Chess". The code name for the new computer was "Acorn". Twelve engineers, led by William C. Lowe, assembled in Boca Raton, Florida, to design and build the "Acorn". On August 12, 1981, IBM released their new computer, re-named the IBM PC. The "PC" stood for "personal computer" making IBM responsible for popularizing the term "PC".

The first IBM PC ran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor. The PC came equipped with 16 kilobytes of memory, expandable to 256k. The PC came with one or two 160k floppy disk drives and an optional color monitor. The price tag started at $1,565, which would be nearly $4,000 today. What really made the IBM PC different from previous IBM computers was that it was the first one built from off the shelf parts (called open architecture) and marketed by outside distributors (Sears & Roebucks and Computerland). The Intel chip was chosen because IBM had already obtained the rights to manufacture the Intel chips. IBM had used the Intel 8086 for use in its Displaywriter Intelligent Typewriter in exchange for giving Intel the rights to IBM's bubble memory technology.

Less than four months after IBM introduced the PC, Time Magazine named the computer "man of the year"

Answer 3

1947: The giant ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator) machine was developped by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr. at the University of Pennsylvania. It used 18, 000 vacuums, punch-card input, weighed thirty tons and occupied a thirty-by-fifty-foot space. It wasn't programmable but was productive from 1946 to 1955 and was used to compute artillery firing tables. That same year, the transistor was invented by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Labs. It would rid computers of vacuum tubes and radios.
1949: Maurice V. Wilkes built the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer), the first stored-program computer. EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer), the second stored-program computer was built by Mauchly, Eckert, and von Neumann. An Wang developped magnetic-core memory which Jay Forrester would reorganize to be more efficient.
1950: Turing built the ACE, considered by some to be the first programmable digital computer.
The First Generation (1951-1959)
1951: Mauchly and Eckert built the UNIVAC I, the first computer designed and sold commercially, specifically for business data-processing applications.
1950s: Dr. Grace Murray Hopper developed the UNIVAC I compiler.
1957: The programming language FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslator) was designed by John Backus, an IBM engineer.
1959: Jack St. Clair Kilby and Robert Noyce of Texas Instruments manufactured the first integrated circuit, or chip, which is a collection of tiny little transistors.
The Second Generation (1959-1965)
1960s: Gene Amdahl designed the IBM System/360 series of mainframe (G) computers, the first general-purpose digital computers to use intergrated circuits.
1961: Dr. Hopper was instrumental in developing the COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) programming language.
1963: Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, produced the PDP-I, the first minicomputer (G).
1965: BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language developped by Dr. Thomas Kurtz and Dr. John Kemeny.
The Third Generation (1965-1971)
1969: The Internet is started. (See History of the Internet)
1970: Dr. Ted Hoff developed the famous Intel 4004 microprocessor (G) chip.
1971: Intel released the first microprocessor, a specialized integrated circuit which was ale to process four bits of data at a time. It also included its own arithmetic logic unit. PASCAL, a structured programming language, was developed by Niklaus Wirth.
The Fourth Generation (1971-Present)

1975: Ed Roberts, the "father of the microcomputer" designed the first microcomputer, the Altair 8800, which was produced by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). The same year, two young hackers, William Gates and Paul Allen approached MITS and promised to deliver a BASIC compiler. So they did and from the sale, Microsoft was born.
1976: Cray developed the Cray-I supercomputer (G). Apple Computer, Inc was founded by Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak.
1977: Jobs and Wozniak designed and built the first Apple II microcomputer.
1980: IBM offers Bill Gates the opportunity to develop the operating system for its new IBM personal computer. Microsoft has achieved tremendous growth and success today due to the development of MS-DOS. Apple III was also released.
1981: The IBM PC was introduced with a 16-bit microprocessor.
1982: Time magazine chooses the computer instead of a person for its "Machine of the Year."
1984: Apple introduced the Macintosh computer, which incorporated a unique graphical interface, making it easy to use. The same year, IBM released the 286-AT.
1986: Compaq released the DeskPro 386 computer, the first to use the 80036 microprocessor.
1987: IBM announced the OS/2 operating-system technology.
1988: A nondestructive worm was introduced into the Internet network bringing thousands of computers to a halt.
1989: The Intel 486 became the world's first 1,000,000 transistor microprocessor.
1993: The Energy Star program, endorsed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), encouraged manufacturers to build computer equipment that met power consumpton guidelines. When guidelines are met, equipment displays the Energy Star logo. The same year, Several companies introduced computer systems using the Pentium microprocessor from Intel that contains 3.1 million transistors and is able to perform 112 million instructions per second (MIPS).

Answer 4

The answer to your question would depend on your definition of the PC, or the "computer". These could mean significantly differentiated things when you probe deeper.

Answer 5

computer basically is a process of evolution rather than invention...
CHARLES BABBAGE is considered as father of computers though there were many inventions like ENIVAC,UNIVAC etc by different scientists like henry hollerith, mauchly and eckert etc etc...

so ans to ur question cud be considered as CHARLES BABBAGE!!!

Answer 6

im not search it on web i would do

Answer 7

IBM