The landmark personal computer, introduced by IBM 30 years ago Friday, launched the PC revolution, changing the way people work, communicate, and play. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from ...
When IBM released its first personal computer, the 5150, 30 years ago, it was deliberately drab–black, gray, and low-key. That’s because IBM intended the 5150 to be a serious machine for people doing ...
SAN JOSE, California -- A white cursor blinks in the monitor's top left corner. From beneath, a slab of machinery whirs, shudders and falls expectantly quiet. Introduced 30 years ago, and once ...
(CBS) - Happy birthday to IBM's Model 5150, which supported only 40 characters, 16 colors, 160KB floppies and a joystick port. In case you don't remember, this personal computer was introduced to the ...
David Bradley remembers a time when the most cutting-edge PC didn’t even have an internet connection. But what the IBM 5150 did offer were the finest features of its time: At 51 pounds, including the ...
Happy birthday, you old rascal, you. Thirty-five years ago today you came into world with a compact design and a $1,565 price tag, at time when IBM’s entry-level “microcomputer” run $90,000 and looked ...
Even though consumer electronics and mobile handsets have long since eclipsed it, the PC can rightfully take credit for creating the modern electronics industry as we know it. IBM introduced the 5150 ...
Perhaps modern computing just isn’t thrilling you currently. (I know I have my complaints with it.) If that’s the case, a new laptop that celebrates the old, by repackaging a slice of early 1980s ...
As obsolete as the original IBM Model 5150 PC may appear, it’s pretty much the proverbial giant’s shoulders upon which we all stand today. That makes the machine worth celebrating, so much so that we ...
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