The first PC

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Wed May 20 23:05:04 1998

Doug Yowza wrote:
>
> I finally got to see the Computer Museum's "visible storage" at Moffet
> Field last night (after the SAGE talk). Wow. Not only did they have
> nearly every computer I've ever heard of, but several I've never heard of.
>
> All this time, I've assumed that the first home computer was the Altair
> (or the Kenback, or the Scelbi), but noooo.... It was the Honeywell
> Kitchen Computer:
> http://www.newmedianews.com/tech_hist/failed.html

How many were built? How many were sold?

I doubt that the first answer reaches two digits. I strongly doubt that
the second answer gets past enough to display at Disneyland and World's
Fairs (one at most) by a reseller with a _plan_, that being Honeywell's
own sales crew.
-- 
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
				Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Wed May 20 1998 - 23:05:04 BST

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