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IBM's First Personal Computer? |IBM’s 610 Auto-Point (1957)

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.