The personal ... Radio Shack and Commodore introduced off-the-shelf computers as consumer products. Known as the "1977 Trinity," the Apple II, Radio Shack TRS-80 and Commodore PET each used ...

The market voted. In general, a keyboard that wasn’t really a keyboard was the kiss of death for a computer. Case in point: the Commodore PET with its infamous chicklet keyboard, which gets a ...

The 1979 Atari 800 might have arrived a bit after the first personal computers, but its cutting-edge processor offered better graphics and sound than both the Apple II and Commodore PET.

Here at the Vintage Computer Festival ... have gotten a modern twist like [bitfixer’s] recent Commodore PET project upgrades. First off is [bitfixer’s] Augmented Reality upgrade.

mass-produced personal computer), 1975 IMSAI 8080 (first clone computer, of the Altair), 1975 Processor Technology Sol-20 ...

that year marked a revolution personal computers with the arrival of three landmark machines: the Apple II, Commodore PET and Tandy TRS-80, which were offered pre-assembled with a monitor and ...