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| | DriverHeaven.net - PC Sales Surpass One Billion |
 | | The personal computer landscape has changed a great deal since the first personal computers were introduced in the early 1970s--to a level which would have seemed to those early users as science fiction, Gartner says. |
 | | Claimants to the title of the first personal computer--desktop-sized, programmable, affordable, and simple to use--include the HP 9830, introduced in 1972, with the BASIC programming language in ROM, but the 9830 cost $5,975, according to vintage computer Web sites. |
 | | A French machine called the Micral followed in 1973, as did the Xerox Alto, which featured a mouse, a graphical user interface, an object-oriented OS, and development tools, and fast networking with the first Ethernet cards. |
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