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MITS Altair 8800
The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1094 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. And it is the first personal computers. -
Apple I
Apple's Steves Jobs and Steves Wozniak designed the Apple I. It is the beginning of Apple. -
Apple II
The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer and on of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products. Designed primarily by Steve Wozniak. It is a color computer with expansion slots and floppy drive support. -
WordStar
WordStar is a word processor application that had a dominant market share during the early- to mid- 1980s. It was published by MicroPro International, and written for the CP/M operating system but later ported to MS-DOS. -
Epson TX-80
The first low-cost dot matrix printer. It was eighty-column dot-matrix printer was released to the market, and was mainly used as a system printer for the Commodore PET Computer. -
VisiCalc
The first electronic spreadsheet. Created by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston. It turned the personal computer into a useful business tool, not just a game machine or replacement for an electric typewriter. -
dBASE
dBASE was one of the first database management systems for microcomputers, and the most successful in its day. The dBase system includes the core database engine, a query system, a forms engine, and a programming language that ties all of these components together. -
TI-99/4
It was shipping in 1979 as the personal computer industry’s first 16-bit computer. It was hobbled by an 8-bit bus for memory and peripherals, which slowed memory access significantly. -
Apple III
Apple III shipped with 128 KB of memory, an internal floppy drive, and Apple II emulation. But Apple III didn't work right, forcing Apple to recall them all to fix number of problems. They release the Apple III some time later with 192 KB of RAM(random access memory). -
Osborne 1
Created by Adam Osborne. This first portable computer was about this size of a suitcase, and had a tiny 5" display. -
IBM 5150 PC
This computer ran a 16-bit CPU on an 8-bit bus (the Intel 8088), had five expansion slots, included at least 16 KB of RAM, and had two full-height 5.25″ drive bays. IBM PC was based on ideas perfected in the Apple II, particularly general use expansion slots. -
Epson HX-20 (also known as the HC-20)
The first "true" laptop computer. It was invented by Yukio Yokozawa who worked for Suwa Seikosha. -
The year of computer
By 1983, the industry estimated that 10 million PCs* were in use in the United States alone. -
Apple Lisa
Apple introduced the first consumer machine with a mouse and graphical user interface.
