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The first Pc
The first personal computers, introduced in 1975, came as kits: The MITS Altair 8800, followed by the IMSAI 8080, an Altair clone. -
Apple I
Apple’s only “kit” computer (you had to add a keyboard, power supply, and enclosure to the assembled motherboard), around the 6502 processor. -
VisiCalc
The first electronic spreadsheet. This turned the personal computer into a useful business tool, not just a game machine or replacement for the electric typewriter. -
Osborne 1
About this size of a suitcase, ran CP/M, included a pair of 5.25″ floppies, and had a tiny 5″ display. -
Apple Macintosh
Introduced in January 1984 (along with a revised Lisa), this Macintosh didn’t have a model number – it was simply the Macintosh. There was no name on the front. Early 128Ks simply said Macintosh on the back, while later ones were marked Macintosh 128K to distinguish them from the later Macintosh 512K. -
Windows 1.0
this DOS shell was content to run even on old 4.77 MHz PCs, albeit slowly. That was also the year Aldus invented the fourth major productivity software category – after word processing, spreadsheets, and databases – by releasing PageMaker. -
Microsoft Windows 3.1
Between Windows and the hardware of the day, the resources finally existed for Windows to become a major player. Windows soon became the default operating system shipped with new PCs, putting DOS in the back seat. -
Newton MessagePad
Had about the same footprint as a modern 7″ tablet, was 3/4″ thick, and weighed nearly a pound. It had a 336 x 240 pixel black-on-gray display, so-so character recognition at first, and used a 20 MHz ARM 610 CPU. (Almost every tablet and smartphone made today uses an ARM processor.) -
Quadra 610 DOS Compatible
(There had been DOS cards for Macs going back to 1987, but this was the first DOS card to bear the Apple brand and ship from Apple.) This was also the year Apple decided to allow licensed Mac clones and shipped the first Power Macs, Macintosh models based on the then-new PowerPC 601 processor. -
Windows 2000
The successor to Windows NT, and also tweaked Windows 98 to create Windows Me (Millennium Edition), the last version of Windows in the Windows 9x family. Apple took the PowerBook to the next level with Pismo, which dropped SCSI in favor of FireWire and shared the same device bay modules as Lombard. -
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Mac OS X 10.1 arrived in Sept. 2001 as a free update to 10.0. And in August 2002, Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar arrived, which many consider the version that was finally ready for prime time. -
iMac G5
The iMac got a facelift and brain transplant in August 2004 with the introduction of the 17″ iMac G5. The new design that put the entire computer behind the screen has remained a staple of the iMac ever since. -
Chromebook
We've already gotten full details on Samsung's model, called the Series 5, and it seems at first glance to offer a tempting combination of performance and price, provided that Chrome OS is everything it's promising to be. -
Trackpad
I agree with a lot of what Harry McCracken refers to in his experience with his iPad and the ZaggFolio keyboard case. Ideally, having such an ultraportable, flexible device with a long battery life would be a perfect travel tool. For me, however, that perfect tool hasn't materialized yet. -
iPad Pro
Apple's largest -- and most expensive -- iPad ever is a powerful new tool for artists and graphic designers. But can it replace a laptop for the rest of us? -
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