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:''for the handheld electronic game that employs computer chips, see Simon (game).'' Simon is the first ''personal computer''.〔(What was the first personal computer? ) at ''Blinkenlights Archaeological Institute''. Accessed: March 15, 2008.〕 Edmund Berkeley developed it and presented it for educational purposes in a series of thirteen construction articles in ''Radio-Electronics'' magazine, from October 1950. There were far more advanced machines at the time, but the Simon was the first automatic simple digital computer that average individuals could afford. In 1950, it sold for US$600. == History == The "Simon project" arose as a result of the Berkeley's book ''Giant Brains, or Machines That Think'', published in November 1949. There, the author said: : In November 1950, Berkeley wrote an article titled ''Simple Simon'' for ''Scientific American'' magazine,〔 〕 that described digital computing principles to the general public. Despite Simon's extreme lack of resources (it could only represent the numbers 0, 1, 2 and 3), Berkeley stated on page 40 that the machine ''"possessed the two unique properties that define any true mechanical brain: it can transfer information automatically from any one of its "registers" to any other, and it can perform reasoning operations of indefinite length."'' Berkeley concluded his article anticipating the future:〔 : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simon (computer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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