World first computer

See the little blue box above? Ever cross your mind that this is a computer to you? No, right?

Kenbak-1 is renowned as the world first computer long before the days of Apple and IBM clones.

Here a little memory lane from Computer museum.

Very little is generally known about the very first Personal Computer, the Kenbak-1. We try to change this with this webpage. The Kenbak-1 was introduced in the September 1971 Issue of the Scientific American Magazine. Here the Kenbak Corporation offered their Kenbak-1 for sale for US$750. The Kenbak-1 was designed by John Blankenbaker. The Kenbak Corporation closed its doors in 1973 - two years before MITS came out with the Altair 8800 - and sold only 40 computers mainly to schools and colleges. This number alone makes the Kenbak-1 one of the rarest - if not the rarest - of all commercially available personal computers. Naturally a lot of the 40 originally sold computers got lost and destroyed over the years. Today - 2003 - the First Computer Museum of Nova Scotia Soc. has knowledge of 10 or 11 Kenbak-1 computers left in existence. This number is even lower then the super rare Apple 1