The Apollo Guidance Computer, which took us to the moon was an embedded computer long before any desktop computer existed. There were missile guidance computers before that (e.g. Bomark & Minuteman I) that were embedded.
It was developed many, many years ago.
ada lovelace worked with charles babbage to make the first computer programme
The first desktop computer was probably the DEC PDP-8 minicomputer in 1965. It came in both desktop & rackmount versions. DEC was in Maynard, Massachusetts.
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The DEC PDP-8/S introduced in late 1965 was the first commercially available desktop sized computer. It was a second generation discrete transistor machine with fewer than 1000 transistors. It came in both desktop and rackmount versions, both the same physical size.
One of the first recognizably modern embedded systems was the Apollo Guidance Computer developed by Charles Stark Draper.http://www.answers.com/topic/charles-stark-draper
Not only can Linux be run on desktop computers, but it can also be run on servers and other types of computers such as tablets and embedded computers. Linux is an open source operating system that is based on Unix, and Unix was first used for computer server applications.
IBM developed the first home computer
Like a normal desktop computer. Very big!
Charles Babbage developed the first 'computer'
What your icons are displayed on when you first start up.
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.
1940s
There never was such a company!
Yes it is.
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Howard Aiken developed the first relay operated computer that is Howard Mark II.