We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular ...
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 goings-on in the world? Fret not, because [Al’s Geek Lab] has you ...
It's said that a crude prototype was shown a month later in August and right on target, a year later in August 1981 the IBM PC (codenamed "Acorn") was released. The first IBM PC ran on a 4.77 MHz ...
Some investors might be wondering if Alphabet is doomed to become the next IBM, which lost the PC and enterprise software markets to its nimbler competitors over the past four decades. But is that ...
But, it was Compaq's first IBM-compatible PC, and it featured a detachable keyboard, 9-inch green screen monitor and dual floppy disk drives. At $3,590, the Compaq Portable was much more expensive ...