Actually, there was a desktop computer called GENIAC which came out in 1955. Quite crude but it worked fine. I got an unmolested one off ebay about a year ago. I first saw one when I was an IBM CE in the sixties.
Heathkit had an analog computer in 1956. Again I got one off ebay two years ago In early 1970's an electronics magazine featured a four bit computer based on the Intel 4004 chip. GENIAC -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac HEATHKIT -- http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/heath_educational_analog_compu.html 4004 -- http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-story-of-intel-4004.html ANTIQUE COLLECTOR ________________________________ From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 2:30 PM Subject: Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube In <1388417488.11875.16.camel@localhost>, on 12/30/2013 at 10:31 AM, David Andrews <d...@lists.duda.com> said: >Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is >that Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. >Anybody remember/use that? Remember. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
