Happy birthday to the IBM PC, which may seem obsolete now but was a smash in its day. (Photo: Google Commons) On this day in 1981, thousands of people put on their velour tracksuits and went to ...

It wasn’t long ago I was nostalgic about an old computer I saw back in the 1980s from HP. It was sort of an early attempt at a PC, although price-wise it was only in reach for professionals. … ...

The landmark personal computer, introduced by IBM 30 years ago Friday, launched the PC revolution, changing the way people work, communicate, and play.

Memory inside this first IBM PC was fabulous at 40K ROM, 64K RAM expandable to 256K with the cost of each 64K being $495 USD. The total cost of a full IMB PC at launch was $3,005, and in the ...

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Source: Old-Computers Online Museum. Photo: IBM 5150 PC. This article first appeared on Wired.com Aug. 12, 2008. See Also:- April 7, 1964: IBM Bets Big on System/360. Happy 30th Birthday to the ...

IBM was a computer juggernaut in the late 1970s. ... AFAIK the IBM PC model 5150 wasn’t available in Europe before 1983. The Sirius 1/Victor 9000 was one of first PC available here.

In our increasingly smartphone-and-tablet computing-centric world, one of the computer engineers who helped design IBM's first personal computer, has made it official: The PC is dead. Thirty years ...

CPU: 7.14MHz Intel 8086 Price: $2,495-$7,195 (about $5,783-$16,678 adjusted) As Compaq's Portable machines continued to sell briskly, the firm dipped into the desktop PC clone market with the ...

Now CTO for IBM Middle East and Africa, Dean wrote, “It may be odd for me to say this, but I’m also proud IBM decided to leave the personal computer business in 2005, selling our PC division ...