Some days you just want to look at pictures.

A thread of beautiful PCs from 1948 - 1984.

IBM 610, 1957.

Sold for $55,000. Only 180 made. Capable of "floating point artithmetic."

Elea 9003, 1957.

The first "solid-state" computer built. Constructed by a group of Italian researchers.

Olivetti Programma 101, 1965.

A programmable calculator, released at the World's Fair in New York. Sold 44,000 units for $3,200.

Beautiful.

K-202, 1971.

Capable of conducting 1M operations a second — more than PCs that arrived a decade later.

At $5,000 it was cheaper than competitors.

Kenbak-1, 1971.

Considered by some to be the 'first' PC. Only sold about 40 machines at $750 each.

Xerox Alto, 1973.

The first GUI, the first mouse, the first "desktop."

Followed by the Xerox Star.

The Trinity, 1977.

The Apple II, PET 2001, and TRS-80 were released the same year. They became known as "The Trinity" as they competed for the PC market.

Atari 800, 1978.

Faster than many competitors. Eventually outcompeted by Commodore.

TI-99, 1979.

Texas Instruments was supposed to dominate the market with the TI-99. They were the largest chip manufacturer at the time.

PC-88, 1981.

Released by Nippon Electric. Sold extremely well, particularly in Japan.

Macintosh, 1984.

A computer for the confused and intimidated. Launched during the Super Bowl.

The Generalist, 2019.

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