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No Microsoft Windows was not the first personal computer.

Microsoft windows in fact is an "Operating System".

Heathkit produced a kit containing the parts for a personal computer which a person could assemble on their own. The H-8 was introduced in 1978.

The first assembled computers to be available in people's homes were the Amiga (1985), Commodore 64 (1982), Kaypro (1982), IBM PC (1981), Apple 1 (1976), and Coleco Adam (1983). These were systems that allowed playing some games as well as had rudimentary word processing or spread sheet programs.

The beginnings of personal computers started out as command line programs with little in the way of graphical interfaces. IBM based hardware PC's running DOS (Disk Operating System) from Microsoft, the Apple from Apple Computers, and CP/M on a variety of machines, were among the earliest, with UNIX OS dominating the server and mainframe computing world.

It wasn't until the development team from Microsoft stole the idea of a "Mouse" from Xerox that the concept of a "Graphical User Interface" or GUI was introduced to this market.

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