This child group of Early Computing Machines and Historical Pioneers gathers the engineers who built the first personal computers and single user workstations from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, including Steve Wozniak's Apple I and Apple II, the Xerox Alto that combined a graphical interface, mouse and networking in one desk sized machine, and the founders of Compaq and other early personal computer companies. Their shared work is bringing a complete computer down to the scale of one person at one desk, as distinct from the mainframe and minicomputer era that preceded it or the architecture and processor specializations that later serviced this class of machine.
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1. Wikipedia: Personal computer
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1974 saw the introduction of what is considered by many to be the first true personal computer, the Altair 8800 created by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS).
Clive Sinclair (Wikipedia)
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best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry
Andy Bechtolsheim (Wikipedia)
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with built-in networking called the SUN workstation
Richard Altwasser (Wikipedia)
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responsible for the hardware design of the ZX Spectrum
Steve Vickers computer scientist (Wikipedia)
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he wrote ROM firmware and manuals for three home computers, the ZX81, ZX Spectrum, and Jupiter Ace
Charles Simonyi (Wikipedia)
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he helped pioneer graphical user interfaces and introduced object-oriented programming and Hungarian notation to Microsoft
Carol Shaw (Wikipedia)
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She worked for Atari, Inc. from 1978 to 1980, where she designed multiple games including 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (1978) and Video Checkers (1980)
Wikipedia: Jeri Ellsworth
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is an American entrepreneur, computer chip designer and inventor
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