Who is the invented the first desktop computer?

Answer 1

The desktop environment rather than the physical machine initially begun as a research project by Douglas Engelbart for SRI International, who is also attributed for creating the computer mouse to go with it. The term "WIMP" was used to describe "windows, icons, menus, pointer", which is now commonly termed the desktop as we know it today. It was first seen in a computer in the Xerox Alto in 1973, which was the first to have a virtual desktop and mouse, roughly 10 years before the Apple Lisa which is commonly and incorrectly regarded to have been the first.

Answer 2

Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) was the first company that created a desktop computer, called Altair.

Tandy (Radio Shack) was the first major company to produce desktop computers.

Answer 3

No one knows who made the first desk. It probable evolved from some simpler shape, but the basic desk forms were developed mostly in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Answer 4

The Programma 101 was the first desktop computer to be sold commercially. It was invented by an engineer named Pier Giorgio Perotto at Olivetti, an Italian company.

Answer 5

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