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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Benchmarks
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Date: 6 May 91 17:31:56 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
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In article <1991May5.213553.14805@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>, carter@cat23.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes:
> 
> Lets not forget, while we are the subject, the thing which started it all:
> 
> The Legendary Altair 8080.  

I've always consider the DEC PDP-8 to be the first personal computer.
It was cheap enough to be purchased for a single user.  No need for
batch or timesharing on this puppy.

(And in a lot of ways it was a RISC machine too!)

-- michael

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