When did the first home computer come out?

Answer 1

The Altair 8800, from Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) of Albuquerque, NM, was first featured in the January 1975 edition of Popular Electronics. It is considered by many to be the first mass produced personal computer.

The Altair was initially offered only as a kit. It comprised of a case, a power supply, a front panel and a passive motherboard with 16 expansion slots. All of the circuitry-the CPU and memory-are on cards which plug into the expansion slots, which MITS called the Altair bus.

No keyboard or monitor was necessary, or cheaply available, users flipped switches on the front panel, writing their own programs in machine language, and watching the LEDs on the panel light up in response to their commands. Bill Gates and Paul Allen saw an opportunity and wrote Altair BASIC, a true programming language, and the first commercial Microsoft computer product.

A:Neiman-Marcus offered a Honeywell 316 minicomputer as a "kitchen computer" for a bit over $10,000 in one of its Christmas catalogues several years earlier. I don't recall how many of them they sold, if any.

The Honeywell 316, and later emulations of its instruction set, provided the basis for the ARPAnet interface computers and packet routers until well into the 1990s.

Answer 2

Bill Gates. He is the founder of Microsoft i think. He is now a multi millionare

Answer 2.Bill gates and Microsoft did not make any computer hardware at first.

They were a Software company only. They designed the Disc Operating System, (DOS / MSDOS) for other computers to use.

Home computers were first pioneered by companies like DEC, Commodore or IBM.

Nobody in Microsoft made the first home computer. As said in the history book by the "Prentice Hall" ("America the History of our nation" 8th grade book). It was said on page 982 Chapter 29, section 3: Science and Technology,

"In 1977, a new company, Apple, introduced the first computer for home use".

Sadly it never said who made the computers in general. Bill Gates was covering the next page about him in Microsoft with donating money to college computers and such.

Answer 3

i know there has been very many different types of computers that have been created throughout lifetime; and that there has been more than one person to help create this wonderful device, but there isn't just one specific spot where it was made.

Answer 4

The first home computer was the Apple computer manufactured under Steve Jobs at Apple Computer, Inc. in 1977. The Apple computer used magnetic cassettes and floppy diskettes for data storage.

Answer 5

The Apple II was likely the first workable home computer system. It was introduced to the public in June of 1977.

Answer 6

According the computer history museum, the earliest commercial personal computer made was the Micral N in 1972, selling about 90,000 units.

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