> what many consider the first PC (the Altair 8800) was out There's a good case to be made that the first personal computer was introduced in 1971, and had act

> what many consider the first PC (the Altair 8800) was out There's a good case to be made that the first personal computer was introduced in 1971, and had actually ceased production in 1973: http://www.kenbak-1.net/ http://www.kenbak-1.net/ The Altair 8800 is more important as a predecessor on the main line of microcomputer development, but the basic idea of a computer a single individual human being who wasn't massively wealthy could own was actually, to some small extent, achieved a few years before anything that would evolve into the rest of the microcomputer line was in existence. (To be technical, the Kenbak-1 can't be in the microcomputer line because it wasn't a microcomputer, because its CPU was built out of discrete components as opposed to having been a microprocessor.)