The first computers made were big. Room size big. They were also very expensive and
pretty slow and
you had to be a specialist to program them.
So the president of IBM, Thomas Watson, can
be forgiven
for his infamous quote from 1943: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
A micro computer is defined as a computer with a single central processing unit (CPU) as a
microprocessor.
Featured on the cover of the magazine Popular Electronics in January 1975 was
the MITS
Altair 8800
and this started the new era of the micro computer. Limited as it were, it was still widely popular
- though mainly amongst geeks. The MITS could be purchased as
a DIY project, and when is was
assembled it had eight switches that could be used to program it. Each switch represented one bit in
the memory register and instructions were made one byte at a time.
Known brands that started build their computers and popularise the trend of buying own machines.
Atari, Commodore, IBM or Apple.
Discover how to play on Commodore 64 and how to use interface with Commodore Basic programming
language.
How to properly use command line.
Find out the most popular games played on first micro computers.
Read about IBM PC and dive into the story of further development of the computers.
Here you will find the story about my first computer.
Software I used. First contact with the internet.
Games I loved to play.