The "FIRST PC" and personal timelines (Was: And what were

re: WHAT WAS the first PC.... The answer IBM... They called their personal computer the PC. Now that flys in teh face of what was happening for 15+ years before that. there were people that were trying make/buy their own personally owned digital computer. This ranged from buying PDP-8s to recreating them or other hardware. When the commercial microprocessor became reality with the 8008 there is little question in my mind that was the pivotal event leading to Mark-8, altair, Apple-1 and so on. As one that is old enough and personally active doing that then makes Donald's minuteman-1 missle computer (surplus) my first contact with a personal computer (micro be dammed for the moment). That was right before the intel part hit the news. Video console, hell we were happy to see a flipflop do exactly that! Allison