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Berkeley Associates
Simon computer
on the front page
of the October
1950 issue of
Radio-Electronics
.
keyboard, and the cassette drive. It was, however, a different
product entirely.
In 1971, the idea of a computer dedicated to personal use wasn't
new. There were other inventors who had designed their com-
puting devices for personal or educational use long before Kutt
started to work on his
PC
. In the late 1940s, Edmund Berkeley,
a great enthusiast of computing and computer education, con-
ceived his first small relay-based computing device and named it
Simon. Berkeley published its design between 1950 and 1951 in
a series of articles in
Radio-Electronics
magazine. The “World's
Smallest Electric Brain” was a digital but, at the same time, very
primitive computer operating with only four numbers: 0, 1, 2,
