The story of the first PC.

In this post at poly-technology we are going to tell the history of the first computer. Who have the first idea, and who developed this idea? And a lot of question like this are going to take answer in this article

I think that this things happened almost 50 years ago, when a small team at the Italian company Olivetti managed to do what no one had done before them; As we know they created a computer small enough to fit on a desk, and could be used not just from the technician people but also from the usual people, because now this computers were small enough. All we know how big was the first HDD and what was the capacity of this hard disk and in this years looking the computer like in the photo here was a great thing. It was the Programma 101, what many consider to be the world’s first personal computer.

We first have to know what computers looked like at the time, If we want to understand how revolutionary the Programma 101 was when it was unveiled back in 1965. Do not forget, this was almost 50 years ago. It was the era of huge mainframes, big as fridges, sometimes filling up entire rooms and it was not good enough to do something good. Only a small elite had access to them.

In the early 1960s, computers were not something you could have all to yourself as we mention before, and most people didn’t even have access to them only technician people good have that lucky.

In this years, Olivetti was trying to compete with the American companies, making large mainframe computers. Being from Europe, they were a bit of an outsider, but they had some limited success.

But, Roberto Olivetti, then-CEO of the company, wanted to try something truly revolutionary. He wanted Olivetti to make a small computer that was more affordable and could be used by regular people, something that you could place on a regular desk. He wanted to create a personal desktop computer.While we are listening this somebody may think the great man Steve Jobs, because he thought in the same way and he became unforgettable in our minds. 

Olivetti gave the project to Pier Giorgio Perotto, an engineer at Olivetti, who would work with a small team of just four people to try and get around all the technical hurdles and create this revolutionary device.

Of course that the idea was insanely ambitious. Perotto’s team didn’t even know if it would be possible and for more they did not know if they could do this things.The technology used in computers back then was way too bulky, so the team had to invent something new for almost every element of the new device, which was meant to be the size of a typewriter. The human-centric approach to designing a computer was also something completely new, and brought its own set of challenges as well.

The project started in 1962.

How things have gone all we know but in more details bookmark poly-technology.blogspot.com to learn more.