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TWT 30th August 2012 23:28

First PC from 1965
 
The incredible story of the first PC, from 1965

If this has been posted before,let me know and I'll bin it

jcbmack 31st August 2012 01:29

Very cool
 
article to read TWT. Was there anything that jumped out at you to choose this particular article?

Pugilistic Animus 31st August 2012 03:09

I Remember the excitement I had when I got my first personal computer
[interesting read BTW...we've come very far!]
http://www.monochrom.at/english/pict...were-human.jpg

:}:8

edit I remember the old Sperry's, Comadore 64's with DOS discs and the original Apples...:)

TWT 31st August 2012 03:14

jcbmack
 
My brother sent me the link,he's a software engineer.He thought I might be interested.I was ! :O

Pugilistic Animus 31st August 2012 03:21

What I found most amazing was NASA's use of it to launch Apollo...and I love the pictures of the world's fair I was born and lived sometime not far from there eventually return as an adult to live for two more years...:)

jcbmack 31st August 2012 03:49

Awesome TWT
 
Software engineering is a great field to be in nowadays... and yes we have come so far, and yet old technology is still awe inspiring.

Loose rivets 3rd September 2012 19:39

This was in the bucket from some time ago.
 
Did any of your very early PCs have a hard drive?


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...naze/IBMHD.jpg


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