From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Feb 14 22:55:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13861 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:55:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13851 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (rno-max1-50.gbis.net [207.228.60.114]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA00565; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:55:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <001101be58af$f4e32300$723ce4cf@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "K. Marsh" , Cc: Subject: Re: Very Strange Question Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:53:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> > I do know that the first home PC had no keyboard or monitor, but had a >> > bunch of switches and lights on it. > >> Very interesting, which year was that. > >Don't know. Probably in the seventies. I was too young to care. I saw >this machine on a PBS special about computing. You can probably rent the >video in a good video store. You're referring to the Altair 8800, which appeared on the cover of Popular Electronics in January 1975. The Altair featured an Intel 8080 processor, a whopping 256 bytes of RAM and cost $297 ($395 with a case). The inventor, Ed Roberts, is the man who coined the phrase "personal computer." --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message