An interesting claim: Olivetti made the first ever PC, in 1962

On 8 March 2012 21:31, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: Perhaps Alan Sugar, sorry, /Lord/ Sugar was right in his description. Speaking of the CPC464, he said: ?Our ?rst computer was a very typical Amstrad concept. We sat down and observed all this computer stuff. And we saw what people were actually buying with computers. They needed lots of cables and cassette decks, and then they had to plug it into a television. ?I decided that the Amstrad philosophy is an all-in-one piece, so we would present our product as complete with a keyboard, cassette mechanism and monitor ? It looked like a mug?s eyeful for the old man when he walked into Dixons. He looks at this thing, with its whacking great big keyboard and a monitor, and he has visions of a girl at Gatwick airport where he checks himself in for his holidays. And he thinks, ?That?s a real computer, not this pregnant calculator thing over there called a Sinclair?? [p123 David Thomas. Alan Sugar: The Amstrad Story. Century, 1990.] -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884