Early History of Personal Computers

• 1975 - Altair in Popular Science

  • Bill Gates develops computer language to expand Altair’s capabilities

• 1976 - Apple begins with Jobs and Wozniak

• 1979 - Visicalc first “killer” application

• 1981 - IBM PC and clones

  • “brains” and OS not controlled by IBM

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