"IMHO IIRC" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.NOSPAM> wrote in message news:LQ2Ui.4917$E92.2419@newsfe23.lga...
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> The Apple I computer designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the most famous members of the Homebrew Computer Club,
> over 30 years ago, in 1976. It was mostly a kit computer. Users bought the workings and built their own case.
> http://www.our-picks.com/archives/20...ars-ago-photo/
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> The Commodore PET, Announced and demonstrated in January of 1977 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, months
> before the Apple II, meets your specs.
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'Trash 80'????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Trinity
1977 Trinity is a name given by Byte Magazine to three personal computers released
in 1977 which competed heavily for the emerging assembled microcomputer market.
They were in alphabetical order the Apple II, Commodore PET 2001 and the TRS-80 Model I.


I'd also add that the 8080 itself had a HUGE influence and thus Intel was born.
Leading to the Pentium - an item that cannot be ignored in this discussion.