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The Altair 8800
Altair 8800 is a microcomputer created by Ed Roberts. It was a very successful product at the time, thousands were sold within the first month. It only holds 256 bytes of memory and also has no keyboard or monitor. It was considered by many to be the first "personal computer" - a computer that is easily affordable and obtainable. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334396 -
Apple 1
The Apple I was the result of the development efforts of Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ron Wayne. Steve Wozniak built the printed circuit board, while Ron Wayne wrote the operation manual, and Steve job advertised the device.The final pricing for the Apple I was $666.66.
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Apple II
The Apple II became one of the most popular computers ever. Dozens of different expansion cards were made by Apple and other manufacturers to add to the Apple II's capabilities, including memory expansion, floppy disk controllers, PASCAL and CP/M emulator cards, parallel, serial, and SCSI cards, processor accelerators, video cards.
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TRS-80
As one of the first home computers ever, announced by Radio Shack, the TRS-80 was a great success. They sold 10,000 units in the first month alone.The first TRS-80 computers had no numeric keypad, and Level I BASIC with 4K RAM.
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Commodore PET
This was the first Commodore computer, the PET, or the Personal Electronic Transactor. It was a top seller within buisnesses in Europe. It had a personal display as well as a keyboard.
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Osborne
Osborne 1 was considered the first true portable computer with two floppy disk drives, a detachable keyboard, and a built-in CRT monitor. It weighed 24.5 pounds and cost $1, 795.
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IBM PC 5150
IBM 5150 cost only $1,565, which included a system unit, a keyboard and a color/graphics capability. Other feature options included a display, a printer, two diskette drives, extra memory, communications, game adapter and application packages — including one for text processing.
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Lotus 1-2-3
A spreadsheet program designed for IBM-compatible personal computers by Lotus Corporation in 1982. Lotus 1-2-3 was the first publicly available program to combine graphics, spreadsheet functions and data management. Its relative ease of use and flexibility made it an enormous success. http://mentalfloss.com/article/48627/lotus-1-2-3-three-decades -
Macintosh
The Apple Macintosh revolutionized the entire computer industry by the year of 1984. Steve Jobs and his ingenious Macintosh team arranged for the computer to be used by the normal “person in the street” – and not only by experts. The Macintosh is run by activating pictures (icons) on the screen with a small hand-operated device called a "mouse" It cost $2495.
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Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft, with version 1.0 being released in 1995. It was a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic and could render basic HTML but couldn't do much else.
http://www.statetechmagazine.com/article/2013/08/visual-history-internet-explorer
