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See the beginnings of the PC
Created: 08/03/2006
Video description: CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari gets a tour of the Computer History Museum, home of the computers that started the very idea of the PC. From the early Atari to the Apple II--and even the machine that inspired Bill Gates to write a little operating system called Microsoft--you'll see how it all got started.

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