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By 1982, an estimated 621,000 home computers were in American households, at an average sales price of US$530 (equivalent to $1,673 in 2023). [19] After the success of the Radio Shack TRS-80, the Commodore PET, and the original Apple II in 1977, almost every manufacturer of consumer electronics rushed to introduce a home computer. Large numbers ...
The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.
Floppy disk drives were initially very costly compared to the system purchase price. Plug-in ROM cartridges containing game or application software were popular in earlier home computers since they were easier to use, faster, and more reliable than cassette tapes. Once diskette drives became available at low cost, cartridges declined in ...
During the early 1980s, home computers were further developed for household use, with software for personal productivity, programming and games. They typically could be used with a television already in the home as the computer display, with low-detail blocky graphics and a limited color range, and text about 40 characters wide by 25 characters ...
A program running in a Kenbak-1 IDE/emulator Kenbakuino, an Arduino-based Kenbak-1 emulator. The Kenbak-1 is considered by the Computer History Museum, [2] the Computer Museum of America [3] and the American Computer Museum [4] to be the world's first "personal computer", [5] invented by John Blankenbaker (born 1929) of Kenbak Corporation in 1970 and first sold in early 1971. [6]
R2E CCMC Portal laptop. The portable microcomputer "Portal", of the French company R2E Micral CCMC, officially appeared in September 1980 at the Sicob show in Paris.The Portal was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the studies and developments department of the French firm R2E Micral in 1980 at the request of the company CCMC specializing in payroll and accounting.
To celebrate Black History month, Engadget is running a series of profiles honoring African American pioneers in the world of science and technology. Today we take a look at the life and work of ...
[9] [10] Programmable machines were also invented by Muslim engineers, such as the automatic flute player by the Banū Mūsā brothers. [ 11 ] During the Middle Ages, several European philosophers made attempts to produce analog computer devices.