24 May
2024
24 May
'24
9:44 a.m.
On Thu, 23 May 2024, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 5/23/24 12:53, Dave Dunfield via cctalk wrote:
> First Personal Computer (long before IBM PC)
This would go back to the 50s or earlier. The LGP-30 and comparable
machines are considered as personal computers, too.
> First system Bill Gates wrote code for (long
before Microsoft)
Didn't he write code for DEC machines at his school before that?
I don't think the "first" applies in
this case. The MCM/70 used an 8008
and was complete computer with storage and display--something the MITS
8800 was not.
And looking beyond the Great American barrier ;-) there was the MICRAL N,
much earlier than the MITS, and considered as the first complete
commercial microprocessor based computer, i.e. not a kit and available to
normal customers.
Christian