The First Home PC -- LOL This does not compute!!

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Actually the picture on the top is a hoax. The picture on the bottom is the real thing, located at the Smithsonian's "Fast Attack and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War "exhibit. The hoax claims that this would be the first PC. Notice the steering wheel --I guess it is a 1950's mouse......

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