im helping my daughter with this project so i need help please.. thanks
2007-02-04 10:56:01 · 8 answers · asked by monica s 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
IBM is credited with the first "PC"
But there were others.
I remember a kit that you had to build...
2007-02-04 11:00:41 · answer #1 · answered by thearthound 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The accepted answer is that MITS is the first home microcomputer pc in 1975, and therefore the first personal computer. It was called the altair
Interesting note: The altair was so bad, with a bad memory and power supply, that the entire home compute industry was fostered just to provide replacement parts for it. Then the Imsai came out with the same bus as the altiar and off the market went.
There were earlier home computers but not microcomputer systems. Never got much attention.
The hammacher schlemmer catalog had a minicomputer for the home offered in the 1965 or 66 catalog. That's probably the first home application.
2007-02-04 11:01:25 · answer #2 · answered by John K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the late 70's, Radio Shack sold probably the first personal computer that had wide sales, the TRS-80. The basic, and I do mean basic, model was 4K and was $399, the upgraded model (16K) was $999. Even $399 was a lot of money in those days. It had the processor, a monitor, a keyboard and a cassette deck. The was WAY before anything so sophisticated as internal hard drives or diskette drives.
The TRS-80 wasn't the first PC, though.
2007-02-04 11:05:13 · answer #3 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steve Wozniak (1950– ) and Steve Jobs (1955– ), college dropouts who founded Apple Computer in 1976, are credited with inventing the first computer for home
2007-02-04 11:01:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Alan Turing made the first computer. The first computer was the HUAC, and it costed thousands. Also, the first home computer was $10,000 and took up a whole room.
2007-02-04 11:06:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before the PC was the ENIAC.. check it out at:
2007-02-04 11:04:00 · answer #6 · answered by barefoot_always 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
apple bill gates 2700.00
2007-02-04 10:58:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computers
http://www.pc-history.org/
Those are the computer sites that i know of right now...
2007-02-04 11:01:26 · answer #8 · answered by hamsterdrugshomicide 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋