8 Mar
2023
8 Mar
'23
3:43 p.m.
On 3/8/23 14:18, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:54 AM Tarek Hoteit via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Yes, there is a "famous" picture of a LINC set up at the
bottom of the stairs of Mary Allen Wilkes parent's home
(Nobody wanted to carry the beast up the stairs...)
This was in 1965. She wrote the definitive OS for that
machine (LAP6).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Allen_Wilkes
Jon
I don’t think there is a strict definition of
what a home computer is. One
can argue Plato is one. Another might say Atari 2600. Someone can argue
that the Altair is the first.
A very good argument could be made that it was the LINC (1962) ==>
https://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/linc/ieee-article.htm
At least one of the systems built ended up in the actual home of one of the
engineers: quite possibly the first "home" computer.