The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But ...

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The history of computers goes back over 200 years. ... 1981: "Acorn," IBM's first personal computer, is released onto the market at a price point of $1,565, according to IBM.

The x86's lineage can be traced back to 1968, to a design on a napkin drawn by Austin O. "Gus" Roche, an all-but-forgotten engineer in San Antonio who was obsessed with creating a personal computer.

Kyle Chayka writes about Laine Nooney’s book “The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal,” which is a history of the Apple II and early personal computers.

24/7 Wall Street identified the price of a specific computer representative of each year between 2016 and 1971 -- the year the first personal computer was released.

Hansen Hsu, Curator of the Software History Center at the Computer History Museum, said, “The release of the Apple Lisa was a key turning point for the history of personal computers.