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Basic
Used mainly by business
Used to create finacial, statistical, and engineering programs
Easily learned by beginning programs
Became key language for PC
Led to the creation of microsoft -
Altair computer
Sold as a kit
No keyboard or moniter
Not user friendly
Marked start of personal computer boom -
Apple II
Feautured color moniter, sound, and game paddle
4KB of RAM
Operating system stored in ROM
Optional floppy disk to load programs (mostly games) -
Osborne computer
First portable computer
Weighed 24.5 lbs
64 kilobytes of RAM
Two floppy disk drives
Preinstalled with spreadsheet and word processing software
