This week marks the 30th anniversary of the IBM 5150 PC, ... but with the rise in the late 1970s of "microcomputers" such as the Apple II and Tandy TRS-80, IBM set out to make a desktop computer ...

10 Educational PC Games Every 80s Kid Loved. ... Later, publishers would translate the titles to other computer systems, such as the IBM PC, Commodore 64, and the Atari 800.

It wasn't the first. And it really wasn't the best. But when IBM stamped its name on its first personal computer 20 years ago this Sunday, the PC's place as a fixture of home and business life was ...

Like IBM’s PC, it had an Intel processor and Microsoft software, and inspired clones. And the Apple II and TRS-80 and other important PCs existed before the IBM PC did. It’s possible that the PC would ...

IBM's PC turned 20 on Sunday--and it's had a checkered career so far. But it lit the fuse of the personal computer revolution, setting off wider changes in business, culture and society.

He was chief engineer of the 12-person team that designed the original IBM PC in the early '80s, earning him three of the nine original patents for that device.

Microsoft is trying to bring back the '80s with its Windows 10 strategy. 2016-03-06T14:43:38Z ... The IBM PC came out in 1981 and soon became a smash hit, surpassing the leading Apple II.

Has Apple become IBM in the ‘80s? opinion. Jan 31, 2019 6 mins. Apple Computers and Peripherals IBM. ... Intel brings AI to the PC and could redefine the desktop. Sep 22, 2023 4 mins. opinion.

Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that newfangled ‘WWW’ to stay up to date on all the ... Back in the late 80s, my father had got a copy of Amaris ...