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1982: IBM PC
Commodore, Apple and others had PCs on the market first, but IBM got them on top of desks in corporate America. IBM had a version that ran on Motorola chips, but it went with the Intel/Microsoft version. And then, chips really started to feel the power.
The ENIAC and its makers
See footage of the ENIAC's creators with their computing machine in action, bright lights, vacuum tubes and all.
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"I was already wearing a plastic pocket protector and thick black glasses--taped together--so I didn't need something to increase my social dysfunction."
"I bought my first computer when I was 15 in 1980. It was an Apple II, which back then was the most popular PC in the U.S."
"I still had to re-key them everytime I wanted to change programs, but this wasn't too bad as the TI-58 only had enough memory for about 240 instructions."
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