The timeline of gameing for Personal computers:


The first Personal Computer available for playing games was the Comodore Pet:

The Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) was the first personal computers and was released in 1977. the Commodore Pet came fully assembled and was pretty straight forward. It came with either 4 or 8 kilobytes of memory, 2 built in cassette drives and a membrane chiclet keyboard.




This is an image of the Commodore PET.

The next step in the Gameing Personal Compter was the Apple II:


The Apple II because extremely well known extremely fast. It was released in 1977 with is own printed circuit board, switching power supply, keyboard and game paddles. the computer would also come with a cassette tape containing the game, Breakout. When the Apple II was hooked up to a colourd television screen, people at the time thouhgt that it was brilliant colour graphics.

The Apple II.

_____



Atari introduces the Model 400 and 800 Computer. Shortly after delivery of the Atari VCS game console, Atari designed two microcomputers with game capabilities: the Model 400 and Model 800. The two machines were built with the idea that the 400 would serve primarily as a game console while the 800 would be more of a home computer. Both sold well, though they had technical and marketing problems, and faced strong competition from the Apple II, Commodore PET, and TRS-80 computers

+

Atari released the Model 400 and 800 computer

Atari 400

Atari 800

___



Commodore introduces the Commodore 64. The C64, as it was better known, sold for $595, came with 64KB of RAM and featured impressive graphics. Thousands of software titles were released over the lifespan of the C64. By the time the C64 was discontinued in 1993, it had sold more than 22 million units and is recognized by the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records as the greatest selling single computer model of all time.

Commodore 64

____


Apple Computer launched the Macintosh, the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic user interface, with a single $1.5 million commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl. Based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, the Macintosh included many of the Lisa´s features at a much more affordable price: $2,500.

Apple´s commercial played on the theme of George Orwell´s "1984" and featured the destruction of Big Brother with the power of personal computing found in a Macintosh. Applications that came as part of the package included MacPaint, which made use of the mouse, and MacWrite, which demonstrated WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) word processing.

The Apple Macintosh

____


IBM introduced its PS/2 machines, which made the 3 1/2-inch floppy disk drive and video graphics array standard for IBM computers. The first IBMs to include Intel´s 80386 chip, the company had shipped more than 1 million units by the end of the year. IBM released a new operating system, OS/2, at the same time, allowing the use of a mouse with IBMs for the first time.

The IBM Personal System 2

____


Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, who left Apple to form his own company, unveiled the NeXT. The computer he created failed but was recognized as an important innovation. At a base price of $6,500, the NeXT ran too slowly to be popular.

The significance of the NeXT rested in its place as the first personal computer to incorporate a drive for an optical storage disk, a built-in digital signal processor that allowed voice recognition, and object-oriented languages to simplify programming. The NeXT offered Motorola 68030 microprocessors, 8 megabytes of RAM, and a 256-megabyte read/write optical disk storage.

The NeXT computer