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In January 1975, featured on the cover of the Popular Electronics magazine was the first personal computer, The Alta 8800. The same year, Bill Gates, Harvard University freshman, and his friend Paul Allen developed the first computer language BASIC, the first software developed for a personal computer. According to Cringley, Altar’s producers, MITS, bought the software. Gates dropped out of school and with Allen, established the Microsoft Corporation in 1977. The computer revolution started many years ago; for example, in Babylon (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C, Abacus inverted a simple counting aid. In addition, Conrad Zuse, a German engineer, completes the first general-purpose programmable calculator in 1941. He pioneers the use of binary math and Boolean logic in electronic calculation (McGrath, 1999). To understand the Personal Computer revolution, we must examine what role major players such as IBM, Microsoft, Apple and Xerox played. Garry Killdall’s, CP/M was being used on virtually every PC in existence in the late 1970 according to Robert Cringley. As the industry grew, the CP/M collapsed. The collapse of the CP/M started in 1980, when IBM was developing its first line of Personal Compute
Xerox, like Microsoft, IBM and Apple, played a significant role in the computer revolution considering the Xerox/Alto computer was built around 1973. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple once stated that Xerox could have owned the entire computer today. It was said that of the top 100 computer researchers in the world, 58 worked at PARC. Xerox funded a research center. Brilliant researchers at PARC could never persuade the Xerox management that their vision was accurate. Nowadays, there are many hand held devices with PC capability. Devices such as Palm-Pilot have reduced the need for personal computer. The hand held devices are getting smaller, faster and cheaper.
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