Computer History IBM's FIRST PERSONAL COMPUTER?? The IBM 610 AUTO-POINT (Auto Point) 1957

Computer History  IBM:  A Rare look at  IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer of 1957.  Sometimes called “IBM’s First Personal Computer.”   The IBM 610 was a general-purpose, vacuum tube computer developed for industrial & engineering applications.   Originally called the "Personal Automatic Computer," designed in 1948, and called “Auto-Point” because it allowed automatic handling of the decimal point within the memory registers.  Not a "microcomputer" by any means, the 610 was actually a complex programming machine, it sold for $55,000 and weighed 1,000 pounds.  A super-rare machine, only 180 were ever made.  Hope you enjoy this unique look back!

Produced by the Computer History Archives Project (CHAP); Narration by  James Izzo.

List of IBM 610 users at:
4:15

Special Thanks to the Following:
Max Campbell, IBM Archives
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhib...

Dag Spicer, Computer History Museum
http://www.computerhistory.org

Columbia University Computing History, New York
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computingh...

NASA’s Glenn Research Center, NASA Archives

Al Kosow’s Bitsavers.org
Original “IBM 610 Manual of Operations” (1957)
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/610/...

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