What's the Most Influential PC of all time?
Wouldn't the Kenbak-1, sold in tiny numbers at half the price of an automobile, look cool as a modern Mac Mini-style desktop PC? The original has 256 bytes of RAM and no microprocessor or operating system. Just pure copper logic in a lovely blue case.
The Dawn of the Personal Computer [Maximum PC via Gizmodo]
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j_bary
#1 – 2:25 PM June 3, 2009
Certainly the Digitcomp that was mentioned in 2006 was the first PC I used:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/21/mechanical-computer-.html
See great picture of kit:
http://www.piercefuller.com/library/u000120.html?id=u000120
alowishus
#2 – 2:33 PM June 3, 2009
The Kenback-1 is gorgeous. What does it eat?