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my mutha

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steve jods and steve woznak

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Paul, re-instating this subject caused me to Google "Chuck Peddle". At the address "http//:www,commodore.ca/history/people/chuck_peddle/chuck_peddle.htm" you shall find a pretty good history of this guy's input to the PC. Although many people had an input to the developement of the PC this chap not only developed the CPU but also assembled the first Personal Computer that sold in quantity - the Commodore PET.

I have still got my money on him 'straight-out', followed by Apple II & Shack Radio with in months.

(Thanks Milton. -PZ)

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In all probability it was not one person but a team and probably a military one at that.
The first electronic computer way back in about 1945 designed as such was the ENIAC,Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was made for calculating the trajectory, elevation, traverse, relative motions and fall of shot for battleships and took up a fair space. Natural progression would shrink the volume until we have a reasonable size and production would reduce the cost until we could afford a 'personal' computer.

There were electro mechanical calculators long before this. one ran at Bletchley Park, UK, prior to 1945 and there were many mechanical only variants even earlier than this.
I think PZ could verify some of this, I hear the original eniac was part of his masters degree in uni?

(Boom-Tish. -PZ)

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I say I invented the computer. I made my own computer out of some sticks. I then taped them togethere and numbered them off from 1,2,3 and so on. So I apparently had a great contribution to the creation of the computer. No I'm kidding but there really was no one that made a computer just a whole bunch of people helped. But I'd would say Konrad Zuse.He made the first programmable computer

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No one 'invented' the computer it was more of a gradual process and if you want to get technical the first computer was an abacus still no one in particuler invented the computer more as everyone had a hand it to what the computer is to today.

(Or the first computer was a pile of counting stones on the ground. -PZ)

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koolprog husssleback

re: Who invented the Personal Computer,in what year and in what country

(It is a good question i asked,and i want to know the real answer for this question, cos it has being convincing which i don't really know the person.
But all i know is bill gate, i don't know the year and the country.
I would really appreciate if i could get the answer for this question.
Thanx in anticipation.
Martins.

Show me the first PC and perhaps we can tell you who invented it. -PZ)

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brak obama

(He's a clever man. -PZ)

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Don't forget that the Xerox Star greatly contributed to Apple's and therefore other like minded companies success.

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it was a blac person as we all no

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i know that i love school cuz im sooo sexy and cool

computers rock
im so gorjus

alleycat10@hotmail.com xxx■■

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i would love to meat alex and will e-Mail hime but i did not inevt the computer

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The name is Pierluigi Perotti working for The Olivetti Company who invented the first PC.
Called Programma 101 or Perottina 1964.

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jefers ghadad was inventing this macheen in 1871 with early valevs in middel eastern

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(Wasn't that Wozniak and Woz? -PZ)

Dead right .. age and zimers is a worry

(You and me both John. -PZ)

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You would have to consider the Question "who Invented the personal computer" in this light ... the PC does not only mean IBM PC Clone AT ALL.. it means personal computer .. and if you want the man who developed personal computers that were sold on mass to the public and started the revolution .. only one man can be singled out ,,.. Stephen Walzak or Walz as he is commonly known as .. he was never the driving force behind the development of the company that put personal computing before the masses .. his business partner and friend Steven Jobs was .. jobs was not technical as Walz was .. but Walz could redesign circuits and made what was a large and expensive machine into the first kits that were put together in a garage and from that the the first PC company sprang.. which stirred the IBM corp into action and brought about the business relationship between IBM and Microsoft. .. long storey from there ... but I'd ignore any production before the apple machines as expensive cumbersome attempts at a PC .. they were never mass produced and were rarely easy to use .. the apple 2 series took that claim and were the first machines to reach a production number of one million.

(Wasn't that Wozniak and Woz? -PZ)

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John Atanasov (his name was changed to Atanasoff) is the inventor of the computer. Bulgarian kids learn that in school. See http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blatanasoff_berry.htm
Technical Explanation of The ABC Computer
The A-B Computer used dynamic storage for its main memory, requiring periodic "refresh" to remind if of its binary state, as do today's dynamic RAM chips. Atanasoff considered using relays, magnetic core memory, vacuum tubes, and charged capacitors to store each bit of memory; he finally decided on the latter, on the basis of the cost/performance.

Atanasoff-Berry Computer Replica
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the first electronic digital computer. The original ABC was dismantled decades ago. Ames Laboratory, using private funding, is building a working replica of this historically important invention.

Court Case
The 1946, ENIAC Computer was long thought to have been the first electronic computer and the inventors, J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly were the first to patent a digital computing device - - but a 1973, patent infringement case (Sperry Rand Vs. Honeywell), voided the ENIAC patent as a derivative of Atanasoff's invention.

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Try a google at "Fairchild Intel association". There is a bit of interesting reading there on the early developement of the Interrgrated Circuit and the first Microprocessor at Fairchild and Intel respectively.

However a course of 24 booklets sold at the newsagent around 1990 gives a pretty fair cover of computing from year dot to 1990. "The Home Computer Course".

I'll put my money on Chuck Peddle, he worked on the 8600 Microprocessor for Motorola. Then on the 6502 for MOS Technology, which was bought out by Jack Tramiel of Commodore and Chuck then produced the first fully contained "Home Computer" the PET Commodore. This was followed shortly by the Apple II which also used the 6502 cpu.

Incidently Chuck and some guy Bill Gates tried to purchase Apple for $150,000 but the bank would not lend them any more than $100 G's. What a red face that B/Manager must have carried around for the last 28 years.

However IBM produced the first Personal Computer, before that they were known as Home Computers. I built a Australian Microbee in 1983 does that count?

(Hi Milton. Did you hear why they decided not to merger Fairchild and Honeywell? They decided that the new name sounded silly - FarewellHoneychild. -PZ)

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There is an answer but it depends on what you define a PC.

Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace built the first COMPUTER

For pcs in the home...maybe the commodore 64 or the Tandy model 2...or apple 1 or maybe it was microsoft who poularized it into homes

if u define a what a pc is ill tell u

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(1946)Most history books will tell you the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Intergrator and Computer)was the first true all purpose electronic computer whose principal creators were the late John Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert and they held the unchallenged title of inventors of the modern computer.
But then, looking back a bit further along comes an obscure physicist called John Atanasoff to dispute there claims as he as a teacher at the Iowa State College in the late 1930s and his student Clifford Bell began building a device that would allow them to solve large linear algebraic equations. Their machine was later called ABC, (Atanasoff Berry Computer) but as he was called away to the Navy in 1942 there were no patents filed in Iowa State and the ABC was left abandoned in a storeroom.
There is more to this story but its to much to get in to, so do a search on the above names and you will find.

(And for those who want to know their lost Hotmail Addresses, dont ask Paul, Me or anyone else as we dont carry crystal balls around, write them down in a log book and dont lose it or apply for another one or even try a small program called SIW systems information for windows which may find it for you, right Paul? lol).
Many regards to all, Frank.

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duno i was lokin 4 it b4 but i coudnt find it!

(Okay - who invenmted soup? -PZ)

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Clues... Try a Search Engine and type in 'Charles Babbage' or 'IBM' or 'Abacus' or 'Punched Card Technology' or

(Or Apple or Altair or Commodore or ... -PZ)

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im so fished up man, i juz dun no. can any one please tell me who invented the pc. cum on,.................. laterz i guess.

(Would it help of I said his name was Percival Charles Snidgrass? It wasn't but would that make you feel better? -PZ)

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thats a good question if only the answer would be on the website also if im asking the question how im going to know the answer damn *****

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i took a breth you winn

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i won't take another breth untill you tell me the anser

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Thanks. I did some research and now I understand. It was a big and slow job and the was no one person who did it.

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l need a site whereby l can get acess to computer networking full notes.

cos l never have time at home to read or study so l want you to help me out.

the reason why am asking this that am always behind the pc.

thanks.

(Hi Saviour, Please tell me what it is you're after? I don't understand - sorry. -PZ)

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l want to know the person who invented the first pc and in which year was it invented.

if not one person, then how many are they and what are their names.

l would be very grateful if you can give me the solution to these questions.

thanks.

(Hi Saviour. As we've tried to explain, it was a gradual process. The only way to answer your question is to do some research on the subject, such as at WikiPedia. Trust me - there's no list of names I can give you. -PZ)

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Who invented the IMB PC?

(That would be IMB. -PZ)

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i need th e name yo usick loser

(Thanks. -PZ)

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I think I'm homosexual. Is that a problem? lakidtristan@yahoo.com

(No problems with us. -PZ)

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I'd like to know, so now I'll go and do some research as suggested.

Thanks.

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who invented the 1st computer was the government because back in the day that is how they traded thing with other country's

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Was it?

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Well its not ME !!!!!!!!!!!

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Found this!

SMH IT section.
In a book titled iWoz published this week, Wozniak seeks to tell the engineer's side of the story and set a few things in the record straight.

For him, the day that defined the personal computer was June 29, 1975, the first time he typed a character on a keyboard and saw it show up on the screen right in front of him.

"Every computer before the 'Apple I' had that front panel of switches and lights. Every computer since has had a keyboard and a screen," he writes.

(Thanks Norm. -PZ)

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I did see a show on the ABC, Revenge Of The Nerds. First PC may of (have?) been invented by the Zerox (Xerox?) think tank in Silicon Valley, early 70's.

Cheers

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i think alien invented the first PC

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John Personal invented the computer. It was originally called the Personal's Electric Calculatore of Miscontent. Later it was shortened to Personal's Computer and then further shortened to Personal Computer then simply to PC.

Use this information to get an A+

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Bloke by the name of Babich made the first "calculating engine!"

Does PC refer to the Open Architecture style IBM Personal computer running DOS?. Comon usage would make me believe so, In which case the simple answer is...tadaaaaaa

EYE BEE EEEEEEEEEM

(grin)
Norm

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hey

i think first person who intvented i think i know who is .. guess who is .. umm umm could be Paul Zucker ? heheheh

anyway i think beleive it first person is paskian boy maybe i am wrong ? could be germany in 1950s

cheers
Revhead

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It was Mr DOS to Vista (clear view ahead...) at Microsoft with contribution from Mr OS X at Apple (fruitilicious)...

Some say it was Mr Linux at Open Source (No tomato flavours..)

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Having just re-read the answers to the initial question. Would it not be prudent to suggest the use of a spelling checker and/or dictionary before posting replies. Unfortunately grammar checking is still very ordinary, so we may need to forgive some of the grammatical errors in some of the replies. As to the inventor of the PC, I agree with Mr. Smith on the 10/09/2004, an article, or series, on the history of the PC in upcomming PCUser magazines, may be educating, and enlightening, to our younger readers.

Who invented the Personal Computer?

I really really need it because we have an assignment and I don't know who's invented the personal computer and the deadline of our project is on Sept 22 ok! pls give me the answer or else I will failed in high school thank's and please help my problem I really need it.......

(If I told you it was Thelonius Monk, would that make you happy? Or perhaps Bert Newton or Dawn Fraser? Your teacher wants you to research the topic, not copy someone elses answer. You have encyclopedias at school and I'm sure they all have useful articles on "personal computer". -Paul Zucker)

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yo people I need to kno who the heck invented the computer... tell me!

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Who Invented the Personal Computer?... John Frassanito, the PC?...Data Point 2200

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the abacass was the first calculator

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John Atanasov invented the computer, he is Bulgarian. Thank you!

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i don't know but i really need to know this for my technology homework

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No one person may be credited with the invention of computers, but several names stand proud in the crowd. The following offers some of the more notable developments and individuals, with great regret for any omissions. There are many different inventors who put the personal computer together

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i dont know i think it is IBM

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Just say no one invented the personal coputer

but it it a good question!

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I think Sarah's not a native English speaker.
On the invention of the 1st PC, I think the 1st PC is huge isn't could almost occupy a number of rooms.But yeah there's no certain name of who invented PCs.

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I aggree a history lesson would be great. I also think to answer the question on the first computer it would have to have some sort of key board and a central processor and be running a monitor to display the first form of dos. An adding machine would not qualify as they are still available and not called a computer.

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I hope this helps

http://www.ideafinder.com/features/smallstep/computing.htm

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I think it might help as well if you check the Intel site www.intel.com - I would do a search for the invention of adding machines, I beleive they were the stepping stones towards the computer.
Also it wouldn't hurt to search for great technology inventions in the 20th centuary...just thoughts.
Good Luck!

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Its a good question..
why?
what was the 1st PC...?
a Z80 or the IBM-PC?
what about the Apple?
I built a thing called a Cromenco (about the size of a sewing machine) in the mid 70's..
does that qualify?
Does a PC need DOS as an OS to qualify?
or does CPM make it too??
Does a PC need an application before it can be considered a PC? So does anything that ran Visicalc (like a TRS80) make the grade?

genl'men (or ladies) at PCUSER
maybe a history lesson is in order.....

cheers