1972. Notable computer: HP 3000 Price tag: $95,000 Inflation adjusted price: $571,791 Hewlett-Packard's 3000 was the company's first foray into smaller business computers. The original 3000 was ...

24/7 Wall Street identified the price of a specific computer representative of each year between 2016 and 1971 -- the year the first personal computer was released.

The 5150 wasn't even the first PC. Apple, Atari, and Commodore produced so-called microcomputers that preceded it. And IBM's creation was inferior in some ways to those rivals.

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 ...

1981: "Acorn," IBM's first personal computer, is released onto the market at a price point of $1,565, according to IBM. Acorn uses the MS-DOS operating system from Microsoft.

When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple I or the TRS-80. But even before that, there were a set of computers that often had no keyboard, or recognizable di… ...

Still, I remember my first PC most fondly, despite not building it myself. It was the first computer I ever owned, and it kickstarted a lifelong love affair. A 20-year-old PC building journey ...

The pricey prototype, hand-soldered by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and was used by Steve Jobs to showcase the company’s first personal computer.

The Apple computer was sold in 1976 at the eyebrow-raising price of $666.66, ... It was also "the first personal computer sold with a fully assembled motherboard," according to the Christie's listing.