On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, William Donzelli wrote:
If the
definition of "personal" is "integrated CPU, keyboard and video
output" then that would be the Sol-20 from 1976. This was first proposed
at the First Annual Vintage Computer Festival, and once you've done your
own research you will tend to agree. Some will argue that the Apple ][
was the first (by this definition). But the Sol-20 beat it by a few
months.
When did the Sphere-1s start shipping? My boards have 1975 dates on them.
The Sphere-1s were also integrated systems, with a standard setup having
the 6800 CPU board, a video board, 16K RAM, and a serial interface board.
Yeah, but none of them ever worked. (I know this is an exageration).
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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