[rohrpost] Pop Quiz: What was the first personal computer?

[Inke Arns]

[Fuer verregnete Sonntagnachmittage hier ein wunderbares Quiz - Viel Spass, IA]


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Pop Quiz: What was the first personal computer? 

Be careful before you answer! The question is highly ambiguous. Are you sure you know 
what first means? How about personal? Even computer is an ambiguous term! 

We'll make it easy for you. Let's define personal computer as a computer having the 
following attributes: 

- It must be a digital computer. 
- It must be largely automatic. 
- It must be programmable by the end-user. 
- It must be accessible, either as a commercially manufactured product, as a commercially 
available kit, or as widely published kit plans. 
- It must be small enough to be transportable by an average person. 
- It must be inexpensive enough to be affordable by the average professional. 
- It must be simple enough to use that it requires no special training beyond an instruction 
manual. 

Ready? 

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Inke Arns
http://www.v2.nl/~arns

Out now:

Inke Arns. Netzkulturen. Europaeische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg, 2002
http://home.snafu.de/inke/Netzkulturen

Inke Arns. Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) - eine Analyse ihrer kuenstlerischen Strategien im Kontext der 1980er Jahre in Jugoslaw
ien. Regensburg 2002. ISBN 961-90851-1-6 
http://www.v2.nl/~arns/Texts/NSK/abstract-NSK2002.html