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 ...
In 1981, dBASE II brought database functions to the personal computer and launched an industry of compatible products and add-ons. The IBM PC was successfully cloned by Compaq and unsuccessfully ...
which was one of the first machines to use it when it launched in 1981. The iconic IBM PC attributed its prominence to the power afforded by Intel's then-powerful CPU, and paired it with 16KB or ...
UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 07: The IBM Personal Computer System was introduced to the market in early ... [+] 1981, at a time when IBM was the world's largest mainframe computer manufacturer.
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 ...
The 5-pin DIN keyboard connector used with the first IBM PC (1981) and second-generation IBM AT (1984). It was subsequently replaced with the smaller 6-pin Mini-DIN connector on the IBM PS/2 in 1987.
Not long after the IBM PC introduction in 1981, demand for PCs for business began to take off. They were expensive at first, but thanks to a software program called Visicalc, the first spreadsheet ...
Copies shipped per month rise from 500 to 12,000 between 1979 and 1981. By 1980 Apple has captured 50% of the personal computer market. In 1980 Microsoft is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for ...