The history of most classic and old personal computer looks like

Did you know the unique of several anchestor of personal computer shapes?

Herewith we share to you

1. First Laptop in the world

This machine is made by Adam Osborne and Alan Key as the first Personal Computer ever at 1981.

It is weighed 24 Kg, and the price about USD 1000.

Narrow screen and wide keyboard is just what we think for first time we saw it.

4 ports of diskets built as removal storage devices.

First Laptop picture :

2. First Personal Computer (PC) in the world

Engineers in Palo Alto Research Design Center established one of Personal Computer (PC) pioneer  at 1974, which is named Xerox Alto.

This machine presented popular computer terms which is very familiar in our era such as : menu, window, icons, nowaday it is what we called : Graphical User Interface (GUI).

They also popularized the input device we called a mouse.

In fact, xerox Alto influenced majority of commercial Personal Computer in the next decades, although they did not being commercial sold.

Sad but true, when other similar product in fact is ultimately reached a huge sales success, such as Apple Macintosh.

Picture of Xerox Alto (1974) :

3. TV Typewriter

TV Typewriter is a video terminal that able to viewed twice screens (16 rows of 32 letters) for ordinary television.

The terminal is made by Don Lancester and it was found in the cover of Radio Electronic magazine at September of 1973.

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The prize achieved USD 120, the machine was the beginning of a milestone in the home computer revolution.

It is populaire with the Mark-8 and Altair 8800 computers also.

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Picture of TV Typewriter and the magazine :

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