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From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>
To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>, <root@isis.dynip.com>
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Subject: Re: Very Strange Question
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:53:45 -0800
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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


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