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The man who made 'the world's first personal computer'

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  1. 2015/11/10
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    When the definitive history of the personal computer is written, familiar and historic names such as Olivetti, Apple, IBM, will all be given recognition for their innovations of the 1960s and 1970s.

    But will future generations remember visionary John Blankenbaker, and his ground-breaking invention, the Kenbak-1 Digital Computer?

    It was a machine that first went on sale in 1971 and is considered to have been the world's first "commercially available personal computer ", coming on to the market some five years before Apple 1.

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