The Kenbak-1, released in early 1971, is considered by the Computer History Museum to be the world's first personal computer. It was designed and invented by John Blankenbaker of Kenbak Corporation in 1970, and was first sold in early 1971.

Since the early 1990s, Microsoft operating systems (first with MS-DOS and then with Windows) and CPUs based on Intel's x86 architecture – collectively called Wintel – have dominated the personal computer market, and today the term PC normally refers to the ubiquitous Wintel platform, or to Windows PCs in general (including those running ARM ...

2011年5月11日 · Intel’s first microprocessor, a 1/16-by-1/8-inch chip called the 4004, had the same computing power as the massive ENIAC. These innovations made it cheaper and easier to manufacture computers...

2025年3月19日 · A small firm named MITS made the first personal computer, the Altair. This computer, which used Intel Corporation’s 8080 microprocessor, was developed in 1974. Though the Altair was popular among computer hobbyists, its commercial appeal was limited.

2024年12月31日 · The history of PC computers began in the mid-20th century, with the development of the first electronic computers. These early machines were massive, room-sized devices used primarily by governments and large corporations.

成为主流时期的PC代表. 1977年对早期个人电脑是意义非同寻常的一年，那一年， Commodore PET (个人电子处理器)和 Apple II 相继问世。Commodore PET有两个内置盒式存储器，存储容量达到8千字节。Apple II则成功融入了印刷电路板、先进的图像、游戏棒，以及电脑游戏 ...

2022年1月24日 · In fact, English mathematician Ada Lovelace wrote an algorithm — what was essentially the world’s first ever computer program — for it in 1843. After becoming fascinated by the device while translating a French paper on it, she went on to create sets of instructions that would enable the machine to compute Bernoulli numbers.

Judges settled on John Blankenbaker’s Kenbak-1 as the first personal computer. Designed in 1971, before microprocessors were invented, the Kenbak-1 had 256 bytes of memory and featured small and medium scale integrated circuits on a single circuit board.

2023年10月20日 · The first computer that resembled the modern machines we see today was invented by Charles Babbage between 1833 and 1871. He developed a device, the analytical engine, and worked on it for nearly 40 years. It was a mechanical computer that was powerful enough to perform simple calculations.

2019年10月24日 · While the Apple II was well on its way to creating a new PC market, mainframe computer giant IBM decided to join in the PC revolution. The company produced a powerful desktop computer called the PC (for Personal Computer; the first model was the 5150) in 1981 and used its well-known brand name to capture much of the market.