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World first microprocessor.
Intel releasd the worlds first commercial microprocessor called 'the 4004' this was created for the japanese calculator company called 'Buiscom'. -
Microcomputer 'Miricale N'
Based on the intel 8008. The computer had been designed by Gernelle, Lacombe, Beckmann and Benchitrite for the 'Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique' to automate hygrometric measurements -
Altair 8800
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Cray-1 Was Created by Seymor Cray.
Seymor left his company to create his own and create the Cray-1. This machine, the first supercomputer to make vector processing practical, had a characteristic horseshoe shape, to speed processing by shortening circuit paths. If you look at the photo you can see the size of it relative to a human. I don't know the exact date of the creation just the year! -
Apple II and the 8800 sparked the era of mass market home computers
much less effort was required to obtain an operating computer, and applications such as games, word processing, and spreadsheets began to proliferate. Distinct from computers used in homes, small business systems were typically based on CP/M, until IBM introduced the IBM-PC, which was quickly adopted. -
Microsoft produced and sold the Altair BASIC programming language interpreter, Microsoft's first product. The second generation of microcomputers
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The 'Homebrew Computer Club' and many other people created the 'Galaksija' home computer
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Throughout the 1980s the 2nd gen of microcomputers were heavialy cloned.
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This expanded the PCs presence in homes, replacing the home computer category during the 1990s and leading to the current monoculture of architecturally identical personal computers.
