Dell en Apple krijgen klappen op pc-markt

Apple was zeker niet de eerste en heeft het idee voor de Apple II ook op een ander gehaald.

The 2001 was announced at the '77 Winter CES [1] in January 1977 and the first 100 units were shipped in mid October 1977.[4] However they remained back-ordered for months, and to ease deliveries they eventually cancelled the 4 kB version early the next year.

The first Apple II computers went on sale on June 5, 1977

Announced at a press conference on August 3, 1977 by Tandy Corporation, the Radio Shack TRS-80 Microcomputer (later re-designated the Model I) was Tandy's entry into the home computer market, meant to compete head-on against the Commodore PET 2001 and the Apple II.

An early use of the term "personal computer" appeared in a November 3, 1962, New York Times article reporting John W. Mauchly's vision of future computing as detailed at a recent meeting of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. Mauchly stated, "There is no reason to suppose the average boy or girl cannot be master of a personal computer".[1]

Six years later a manufacturer took the risk of referring to their product this way, when Hewlett Packard advertised their "Powerful Computing Genie" as "The New Hewlett Packard 9100A personal computer".[2] This advertisement was deemed too extreme for the target audience and replaced with a much drier ad for the HP 9100A programmable calculator.[3][4]

Over the next seven years the phrase had gained enough recognition that when Byte magazine published its first edition, it referred to its readers as "[in] the personal computing field",[5] and Creative Computing defined the personal computer as a "non-(time)shared system containing sufficient processing power and storage capabilities to satisfy the needs of an individual user."[6] Two years later, when what Byte was to call the "1977 Trinity" of pre-assembled small computers hit the markets,[7] the Apple II and the PET 2001 were advertised as personal computers,[8][9] while the TRS-80 was a described as a microcomputer used for household tasks including "personal financial management". By 1979 over half a million microcomputers were sold and the youth of the day had a new concept of the personal computer.[10]

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