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In the early 1960s when computers were mainly mainframes that they took up entire rooms. Researches at Xerox’s Polo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) had realized that the pace of improvement in the technology of semiconductors meant that sooner or later the PC would be extravagant no longer.
Although the work at Xerox PARC was crucial, it was not the spark that took PCs out of the hands of experts and into the popular imagination.
In January 1975, the magazine Popular Electronics put a new kit for hobbyists, called the Altair, on its cover. The Altair inspired Steve Wosniak and Steve Jobs to build the first Apple computer, and a young college Bill Gates wrote software for it
They felt was needed to bring PCs to the masses. The Altair incorporated one of the first single-chip microprocessor called the Intel 8080.
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In the early 1960s when computers were mainly mainframes that they took up entire rooms. Researches at Xerox’s Polo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) had realized that the pace of improvement in the technology of semiconductors meant that sooner or later the PC would be extravagant no longer.
Although the work at Xerox PARC was crucial, it was not the spark that took PCs out of the hands of experts and into the popular imagination.
In January 1975, the magazine Popular Electronics put a new kit for hobbyists, called the Altair, on its cover. The Altair inspired Steve Wosniak and Steve Jobs to build the first Apple computer, and a young college Bill Gates wrote software for it
They felt was needed to bring PCs to the masses. The Altair incorporated one of the first single-chip microprocessor called the Intel 8080.
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In the early 1960s when computers were mainly mainframes that they took up entire rooms. Researches at Xerox’s Polo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) had realized that the pace of improvement in the technology of semiconductors meant that sooner or later the PC would be extravagant no longer.
Although the work at Xerox PARC was crucial, it was not the spark that took PCs out of the hands of experts and into the popular imagination.
In January 1975, the magazine Popular Electronics put a new kit for hobbyists, called the Altair, on its cover. The Altair inspired Steve Wosniak and Steve Jobs to build the first Apple computer, and a young college Bill Gates wrote software for it
They felt was needed to bring PCs to the masses. The Altair incorporated one of the first single-chip microprocessor called the Intel 8080.