The very first personal computers - How many are left?

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Fri Apr 11 17:42:23 2003

On 8 Apr 2003, , Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> >From: "The Design Fort DTP" <design.fort_at_ns.sympatico.ca>
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >One thing I was always interested in - and the visitors in
> >my Computer Museum often want to know - is how many of the
> >very first personal computers are still in existence. By
> >first PCs I mean the following machines: Kenbak 1 Scelbi 8h
> >Mark-8 IBM 5100 Apple 1 Altair 8800 IMSAI 8080
>
> Hi
> Missed the Poly88.
> Dwight
>

 And also the MICOM 2000. The first Canadian-produced
computer and it came fully assembled.(!) In 1975, by
Stephen Dorsey who had earlier developed the worlds
first programmable word processor under the AES label
in 1972.

Lawrence

lgwalker_at_ mts.net
Received on Fri Apr 11 2003 - 17:42:23 BST