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KENBAK-1
| Manufacturer | KENBAK
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| Identification,ID | KENBAK-1
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| Date of first manufacture | 1971
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| Number produced | about 40
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| Estimated price or cost | $750
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| location in museum | -
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| donor | -
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Contents of this page:
Photo
Placard
Architecture
Len Shustek is quoted as saying -
"So what was the first commercially available PC? Well, according to the
results of a 1986 contest sponsored by The (Boston) Computer Museum, it
wasS "none of the above". Instead, the winner was the Kenback-1, designed
by John Blankenbaker in 1971. It predated microprocessors, had 3
programming registers, 5 addressing modes, and 256 bytes of memory. Price
$750."
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Special features
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this site)say KENBAK-1 had 0.25 K Bytes.
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this site says it had no provision for digital I/O
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Popular Mechanics says it has no microprocessor! It also
has quite a discussion of "first" or "early" personal computers.
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