25 May
2024
25 May
'24
6:27 p.m.
On 5/25/24 13:05, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
When announced and sold new, were the SIMON, LINC and
G-15 sold and described as, in the exact words, "personal computer"? Did the
guy with multiple supercomputers in his basement buy them NEW, to use them for their
designed purpose? If not they are just memorabilia, like a victrola.
The Bendix G-15 came out in 1956! It cost about $60,000 in
1956 Dollars. The first LINC machines were built at an MIT
summer school by grad students who would then take them back
to their home institutions and use then in biomedical
research labs. The LINCs in this case cost about $50K, and
were built starting in 1961-62. The term "personal
computer" was not coined until a LONG time after.
Jon