Talk:Sphere 1

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I've removed the bit about the Sphere 1 being the first personal and other such outlandish claims. The only two references on this page are a link to the company's website and a single magazine article which does not support any of this page's claims, and in no way suggests that the Sphere 1 was the first PC. What it actually said was:

"This is an exciting time in the microprocessor business with systems getting going just about every month. The Sphere, MITS and SWTP systems are just the vanguard of what is coming."

The next year, the journalist wrote a brief followup:

"When I visited Sphere back in August 1975 they were expected to ship hardware in a few weeks and were certain they would have BASIC available for it in the same time slot. I think the hardware finally got out in about 4 months (complete systems, I mean) and to my knowledge they have not yet shipped BASIC in any good usable form." [1]

--Xiaphias (talk) 20:37, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some information left out of this page, which I have added multiple times and the author deleted multiple times, is that Sphere had more than one founder. The Engineer who did much of the work on the actual computers was Monroe Tyler. When the person in charge of finances was caught embezzling instead of paying taxes, Mr. Tyler was faced with coming up with the money to pay the IRS or end up in Jail. He took the computer blueprints/plans and sold them to International Business Machine (yes, IBM). In that way at least, it can be said that Sphere computers directly affected the computing world and were, in way, the first PC.^[1]17:43, 7 December 2016 (UTC)134.250.61.131 (talk)

References

^ Monroe Tyler - personal interview

[1] Monroe Tyler - personal interview

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