2011年5月11日 · Time magazine named the personal computer its 1982 "Man of the Year." ENIAC and other early computers proved to many universities and corporations that the machines were worth the...

Judges settled on John Blankenbaker’s Kenbak-1 as the first personal computer. Designed in 1971, before microprocessors were invented, the Kenbak-1 had 256 bytes of memory and featured small and medium scale integrated circuits on a single circuit board.

The first of several personal computers released in 1977, the PET comes fully assembled with either 4 or 8 KB of memory, a built-in cassette tape drive, and a 'chiclet' keyboard. The PET was popular with schools and for use as a home computer.

2024年12月31日 · In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the personal computer revolution truly began. Companies like Microsoft played a pivotal role in this transformation. The introduction of the IBM PC in 1981, running Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, set a new standard for personal computing.

2 天之前 · A small firm named MITS made the first personal computer, the Altair. This computer, which used Intel Corporation ’s 8080 microprocessor, was developed in 1974. Though the Altair was popular among computer hobbyists, its commercial appeal was limited.

2023年10月20日 · IBM's 5150 Personal Computer, released in 1981, put computers on the desktops of businesses around the world and came with a system unit, a keyboard and a color/graphics capability. It used the MS-DOS operating system from Microsoft.

2023年9月12日 · IBM introduced its first personal computer, the IBM PC, in 1981. The computer was code-named Acorn . It featured an 8088 processor and 16 KB of memory, which was expandable to 256 and used MS-DOS .

2024年3月26日 · Kenbak-1 is famously regarded as the first stored-program personal computer created. Created by John V. Blankenbaker in 1971, the...

2024年3月29日 · The dream of a personal computer dates back to the early days of computing in the 1950s and 60s. Pioneering computer scientists like Alan Kay envisioned a day when everyone would have their own interactive computer as a personal …

2025年2月2日 · The First Personal Computers: PDP-1 (1967): The PDP-1 was the first commercially available personal computer. It was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and was used in various applications, including scientific research and business.