Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:53:45 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>, <root@isis.dynip.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Very Strange Question Message-ID: <001101be58af$f4e32300$723ce4cf@danco.home>
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>> > I do know that the first home PC had no keyboard or monitor, but had a >> > bunch of switches and lights on it. > >> Very interesting, which year was that. > >Don't know. Probably in the seventies. I was too young to care. I saw >this machine on a PBS special about computing. You can probably rent the >video in a good video store. You're referring to the Altair 8800, which appeared on the cover of Popular Electronics in January 1975. The Altair featured an Intel 8080 processor, a whopping 256 bytes of RAM and cost $297 ($395 with a case). The inventor, Ed Roberts, is the man who coined the phrase "personal computer." --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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