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From ACS to Altair: The Rise of the Hobby Computer
[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] The Early Electronics Hobby A certain pattern of technological development recurred many times in…
There is another machine sometimes cited as the first personal computer: the Micral N. Much like Nat Wadsworth, French engineer François Gernelle was smitten with the possibilities opened up by the Intel 8008 microprocessor, but could not convince his employer, Intertechnique, to use it in their products. In December 1972, R2E signed an agreement with one of those clients, the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA, a government agronomical research center), to deliver a process control computer for their labs at fraction of the price of a PDP-8. [15] François Gernelle, “La Naissance du Premier Micro-Ordinateur: Le Micral N,” in Philippe Chatelin and Pierre E. Mounier-Kuhn, eds., Deuxième Colloque sur l’Histoire de l’Informatique en France, v. 1 (Paris: Conservatoire
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