World's first computer on ebay!

Wed Apr 11 01:08:02 CDT 2007

On 4/10/07, stuart birchall <stuart at retrocomputing.tv> wrote:
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I doubt it was the first home computer, from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatung_Einstein

The *Tatung Einstein* was an eight-bit <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-bit>
home <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer>/personal
computer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer>produced by
Taiwanese <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan> corporation
Tatung<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatung_Company>,
designed and assembled in Telford <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telford>,
England. It was aimed primarily at small businesses.

The Einstein was released in the United
Kingdom<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom>in the summer of
1984 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984>