Kenbak-1
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.2|A program running in a Kenbak-1 IDE/emulator. Click to start animation. Note that the program's sole use is to show lights being shifted. thumb|Kenbakuino, an Arduino-based Kenbak-1 emulator
Key facts
- Information appliance.name
- Kenbak-1
- Information appliance.image
- Kenbak-1 personal computer.jpg
- Information appliance.caption
- A Kenbak-1 at Deutsches Museum, Munich
- Information appliance.developer
- John Blankenbaker
- Information appliance.manufacturer
- Kenbak Corporation
- Information appliance.type
- Personal computer
- Information appliance.units_sold
- 44
- Information appliance.memory
- 256 bytes of memory
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Technical description
- Registers
- Addressing modes
- Instruction table
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|upright=1.2|A program running in a Kenbak-1 IDE/emulator. Click to start animation. Note that the program's sole use is to show lights being shifted. thumb|Kenbakuino, an Arduino-based Kenbak-1 emulator
The Kenbak-1 is a personal computer released in early 1971 by the Kenbak Corporation. Designed in 1970 by John Blankenbaker (born 1929), the Kenbak-1 is considered by several institutions, including the Computer History Museum, the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art and the American Computer Museum, to be the world's first commercially released personal computer. Less than 50 units were ever built, using Bud Industries enclosures as a housing. The system first sold for . , only 14 machines are known to exist worldwide, in the hands of various collectors and museums. Production of the Kenbak-1 stopped in 1973, as Kenbak failed and was taken over by CTI Education Products, Inc. CTI rebranded the inventory and renamed it the 5050, though sales remained elusive.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kenbak-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.