8 Mar
1999
8 Mar
'99
9:55 p.m.
Tony wrote:
Anyway, the list included the first workstation
(Alto),
Are you sure about that? I thought the first workstation was the IBM
Autopoint computer (Type 610), introduced in 1954 [*]. Unless you count
the IBM CPC, 1940.
And _History of Personal Workstations_ seems to classify the HP 9100 (1968)
as a workstation.
Oh, did you mean graphical workstation? Then maybe it was the DEC GT40,
introduced in 1972.
Never mind, no one ever agrees on these "firsts".
Eric
[*] That's the date listed in several online sources, but I'm not sure
it is correct. Definitely not any ealier than 1954, and probably not
later than 1958.