At 06:52 AM 1/11/98, you wrote:
>At 04:38 PM 1/11/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Joe wrote:
>>> I think the credit on this one has to go to the IBM 5100 again. It
was
>>> released in 1975.
>>
>>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.
Close, the Altair 8800 was introduced as the cover project in the January
1975 issue of Popular Electroncs.
-jim
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