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Konrad Zuse with the Z1 computer in 1936. Or Pascal if you want to get technical with automated counting machines.
I think in terms of the modern "PC", probably the Altair, followed by many proprietary boxes. My Dad had an Altair...... brutish piece of crap. Blinking lights and toggle switches.
Remember Steve Jobs was the guy who predicted that the Segway scooter would revolutionize the world, that we would 'build cities around it' etc. Jobs also was the moving force behind the Apple III, or 'Lisa' which was a disastrous flop. If you have one of those, I imagine it is an incredibly valuable collectors item because so few were sold. It's code name was 'Lisa' rumored at the time to be the name of a Jobs girlfriend, although that was probably not the case. I guess even the best trees produce a few sour apples.
I think in terms of the modern "PC", probably the Altair, followed by many proprietary boxes. My Dad had an Altair...... brutish piece of crap. Blinking lights and toggle switches.
That wasn't until 1974/75
You had:
1942 John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
1944 Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper
1946 John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
1948 Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn
1947/48 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley
1951 John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
1953 International Business Machines
1954 John Backus & IBM
1955 Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric
1958 Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
1962 Steve Russell & MIT
1964 Douglas Engelbart
1969 ARPAnet
1970 Intel 1103 Computer Memory
1971 Faggin, Hoff & Mazor
1971 Alan Shugart &IBM
1973 Robert Metcalfe & Xerox The Ethernet Computer Networking
And think about writing a program back then... you know, punch cards.... having a stack of like 1000 and accidentally dropping them all... /gun head boom
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