Personal Computer History

Personal computer was doctor's baby By Chelsea J. Carter (associated press)

He raised it from a microcircuit by Jacques Steinberg New York Times News Service 98/12/12

What Ever Happened to... The First Personal Computer by John C. Dvorak

Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present

"Electric Brain" the Chinese symbole for computer
- Inspired by this interesting breakdown, I have asked a good friend (Spehro Pefhany) to find a Chinese translation of "MassMind." The result is most pleasing to me.

The First Generation Computers

Intel

Hackers

Centronics

Byte Magazine

Did you know?

• Hedy Lamarr co-invented spread spectrum modulation during WWII.

...and yes, that is the absolute truth. She had no great technical ability, but when the problem of radar and radio jamming was explained to her, she suggested changeing the frequency according to a preset pattern (like a song) to keep the Germans guessing. Her fresh point of view made the difference.

FAQs and Archives

See also:

• http://www.kiblerelectronics.com/tcj/archive/archive.shtml Archive for "The COMPUTER JOURNAL" A Bi-Monthly magazine that supported classic computer systems. Over 14 years of articles on hardware and software. Articles detailed actual projects and information to assist in the generation of home grown hands on projects to control and increase ones knowledge of computer systems.
• http://uploader.wuerzburg.de/gym-fkg/schule/fachber/englisch/joel/songtext.html "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel with links to each of the historical items it referes.
• http://www.raygirvan.co.uk/apoth/5.htm Great History site... links to Babbage and other sites.
• http://www.shai.com/ai_general/history.html Cronology of Artificial Intellegence
• http://www.computergarage.org/Garage/jcgm-mic.shtml
• http://home.infi.net/~wtnewton/oldcomp/index.html

Learn about computers from watching movies? +

Questions:

• STOPspamCandyQueen_B2 at msn.com asks: " how long has the computer been around?
  and who invented the first computer?
  " James Newton replies: That depends entirely on your definition of the word "computer"+

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