Firsts

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sun Jan 11 06:52:31 1998

At 04:38 PM 1/11/98 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Joe wrote:
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>> >> first personal computer (I think I know that one)
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>> I think the credit on this one has to go to the IBM 5100 again. It was
>> released in 1975.
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>Is it not true, then, that Ed Roberts coined the term 'personal computer'
>to describe the Altair? (That's the legend I've been led to believe.)

   I don't know if he did or not but the Altair wasn't announced til
January 1976 or 77 (I don't remember which but I have the magazine that it
was announced in.) The IBM 5100 was already in production in 1975.

  Joe


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Received on Sun Jan 11 1998 - 06:52:31 GMT