First Home Computer

We also purchased our first printer which i believe was a hp pin wheel drive.

First home computer. 1980 was the year commodore opened the floodgates of home computing with the 299 vic 20. I believe the years was. The apple computer 1 originally released as the apple computer and known later as the apple i or apple 1 is a desktop computer released by the apple computer company now apple inc in 1976 it was designed and hand built by steve wozniak. But the first computer resembling today s modern machines was the analytical engine a device conceived and designed by british mathematician charles babbage between 1833 and 1871 before babbage came along a computer was a person someone who literally sat around.

During this time it made economic sense for manufacturers to make microcomputers aimed at the home user. It came with a video interface 8k of ram and a keyboard. We could argue that the first computer was the abacus or its descendant the slide rule invented by william oughtred in 1622. While turing s computer was an abstract concept it was a german engineer named konrad zuse who would go on to build the world s first programmable computer.

It was hobbled by an 8 bit bus for memory and peripherals which slowed memory access significantly. Jobs and wozniak incorporate apple and show the apple ii at the first west coast computer faire. By simplifying the machines and making use of household items such as television sets and cassette recorders instead of dedicated computer peripherals the home computer allowed the. The system incorporated some economical components like dynamic ram and the 6502 processor which was designed by rockwell produced by mos technologies and cost only about 25 dollars at the time.

My first computer was a radio shack tandy 00. His first attempt at developing an electronic computer the z1 was a binary driven calculator that read instructions from punched 35 millimeter film. Commodore even used star trek television star william shatner in advertisements. The idea of selling the computer came from wozniak s friend steve jobs.

Intended to be a less expensive alternative to the pet the vic 20 was highly successful becoming the first computer to sell more than a million units. Texas instrument s poorly designed and ill fated ti 99 4 also shipping in 1979 as the personal computer industry s first 16 bit computer. The apple i was apple s first product and to finance its creation jobs sold his. For the first time non geeks could write programs and make a computer do what they wished.

Commodore releases the vic 20 home computer as the successor to the commodore pet personal computer. The home computers between 1977 and about 1992 were different from today s uniform and predictable machines. The apple i was the first single circuit board home computer.