Medium Scale ALU

The Kenbak-1 is considered to be the worlds first “Personal Computer”. That is it didn’t take up half a room, and was designed to be used by 1 person. It wasn’t cheap though at $750 in 1971. That is equivalent to $4,660 (£3,640) in 2019. According to Wikipedia, only 50 Read more…

The DDP-516 computer was originally designed by Computer Control Company Inc, who were bought out by Honeywell in 1966. This machine uses plug-in modules, each containing several IC’s to form a logical function. This greatly reduced the size of the computer. If you haven’t heard of Honeywell computers it is Read more…