HISTORY of computers ; )

                                    THE HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

Pop 8

It belonged to a class of computers  called minicomputers which were smaller and cheaper.DEC dominated the minicomputer market. By late 1973, the PDP-8 family was the best computer in the hole  world. The PDP-8 has been described as the model-T of the computer industry because it was the first computer to be  the mass produced at a cost.

It cost £18,000 (equivalent of £300,000 today)and had only 4k of memory

Acorn computers

Computers,  was a huge success, 1.5 million were sold, mainly to schools in the early 1980s the BBC wanted to release a branded computer to support the BBC Computer Literacy Project. The BBC Micro was produced by Acorn Computers, and was a huge success