[vcf-midatlantic] Inventor of the first personal computer dies - and it's not who you think

Douglas Crawford touchetek at gmail.com
Sat Apr 22 11:26:18 EDT 2017


Thanks for posting that!
So he also designed the Bendix G-15... his picture belongs with our 
museum Bendix.

On 4/22/2017 10:18 AM, Jim Scheef via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> Noticed this in the NYT and thought that I've never heard of this guy, but he is mentioned in "Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer" by Scott McCartney.
>
> The NYT article is "Harry Huskey, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Is Dead at 101"
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/us/harry-huskey-dead-computer-pioneer.html
>
> His G-15 computer was 'personal' because it could be operated by one person.
> Jim
>



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