I defy anyone
to come
up with a sensible defintion of personal computer that excludes the
hP9830 (aka Model 30 calculator).
Well, if you are going to stipulate "sensible", then none of the board of
education definitions would apply.
Why does that not suprise me :-)
As I've remarked before, I wonder why the IBM5100 rememebred more than
the HP9830. Sure, the 5100 had a CRT display and the 9830 a 1-line LED
display, but apart from that they were farily similar in their
capabilites. And the 9830 was afew years earlier. I could put a strong
case forwards for callling it the first personal computer.
-tony