Subject: Kleinstrechenautomat D4e

From: "Hans Franke" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu Mar 27 12:34:59 2003

Hre's one for the old-iron and who-was-first buffs.

Take a look at
http://www.tsd.de/lehmann/framed4a.htm

The displayed machine is an East German development from
the early 60's. The unit went into 'mass' production in
1963. It is sait that this might be the first desktop
PC ever. The whole unit is self contained with CPU, two
paper tape drived (one is also, IIRC, a puncher), and a
front panel. THe comuter was ment to be as a 'workstation'
on an engeneers desk.

Now, does anyone of you know about a similar machine
(especialy about the desktop part) produced in series
before 1963?

Gruss
H.

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