2007-03-11 01:33:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
With computers like the Altair 8080 the realm of high priced computing (remember IBM mainframes were the alternative) was brough into reach of individuals.
Apple co founder Steve Woz was greatly influenced by his involvment with a computer club and the 8080 chip (The Altair's CPU)
In the early days there was a strong communial spirit and collaboration, ideas, skills and information (including software) were freely exchanged. This exchange ultimately improved computers and rapidly elevated them from the basements of electronic hobbyists and hackers (The original definition of hacker) into a state where people could easily interface with a PC and concentrate on writting code.
If you notice the Altair is programmed in machine code in binary with switches. No key board was available.
PC clubs started to deveope and make their own hardware and software to add features like keyboards and video displays ect...
Because of the work of hobbyists and club members they not only pushed pc development but also showed there was a significant consumer market.
Eventually in the early 80's cheaper PC's reached the mass consumer market. These PC were marketed by Atari, Texas Instruments, Timex/Sinclar, Radio Shack (probably the most popular at the time).
You not had consumer platforms that were ready togo out of the box that could you could do something with that did not involove a soldering iron.
And the reset as they say is history....
2007-03-11 03:02:43 · answer #1 · answered by MarkG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Homebrew Computer Club
2016-12-18 06:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-24 20:09:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋