Personal computing developed at the intersection of microelectronics, hobbyist communities and the need for individual access to computing.
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1990
From hardware to software
How components gave power to ideas.
1971
The beginnings of microprocessors
From large systems to small integrated circuits.
1980
The floppy disk: knowledge in your pocket
The small medium that carried programs, work and memories.
1981
Texas Instruments TI 99
The model has a TMS 9900 processor at 3.3 MHz and memory of 16kB. It ran with…