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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]
The PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) is the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1959. It is known for being the most important computer in the creation of hacker culture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Bolt, Beranek and Newman , and elsewhere. [ 2 ]
In 1969, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro asked during a visit to the University of Havana if Cuba could produce a digital computer. [1] The Centro de Investigaciones Digitales (CID, "Center for Digital Researches") was formed. The project was directed by Luis Carrasco and mostly designed by Orlando Ramos.
The Z1 was a motor-driven mechanical computer designed by German inventor Konrad Zuse from 1936 to 1937, which he built in his parents' home from 1936 to 1938. [1] [2] It was a binary, electrically driven, mechanical calculator, with limited programmability, reading instructions from punched celluloid film.
The Timex Sinclair 1000 (or T/S 1000) was the first computer produced by Timex Sinclair, a joint venture between Timex Corporation and Sinclair Research.It was launched in July 1982, with a US sales price of US$99.95, making it the cheapest home computer at the time; it was advertised as "the first computer under $100". [1]
The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), [1] was the first electronic stored-program computer.It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.
The Mark 1/1* weighed 10,000 pounds (5.0 short tons; 4.5 t). [12] At least seven of the Mark 1* machines were delivered between 1953 and 1957, [9] one of them to Shell labs in Amsterdam. [13] Another was installed at Avro, the aircraft manufacturers, at their Chadderton factory in Manchester. This was used for work on the Vulcan among other ...
The HX-20 (also known as the HC-20) is an early laptop released by Seiko Epson in July 1982. It was the first notebook-sized portable computer, [4] [5] occupying roughly the footprint of an A4 notebook while being lightweight enough to hold comfortably with one hand at 1.6 kilograms (3.5 lb) and small enough to fit inside an average briefcase.