Hackaday5mon
The IBM PC: Brainchild Of A Misfit
The titular character is Don Estridge, a decidedly atypical IBM employee who was instrumental in creating the personal computer market as we know it. It’s not that IBM invented the personal ...
PC Magazine3y
personal computer timeline
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 ...
The new 2024 Mac Mini is Apple’s IBM PC moment and this tiny computer is the final nail in the desktop PC’s coffin: here’s why
Just over 43 years ago, the dawn of a new era started when IBM launched the first true personal computer, the 5150 which I fondly remember by its moniker, IBM PC. The recent new Mac Mini announcement ...
Hackaday2y
Turbo Button Pays Charming Homage To Early Personal Computers
The PC turbo button and LED clock speed display were common features on early personal computers ... Inherited from the original IBM PC, some early computer programs relied on this specific ...
TechSpot7y
What is the best-selling desktop personal computer of all time?
The original Commodore 64 sported a 1MHz CPU ... to 1.3 million in 1983 – roughly the same number of machines sold by IBM and Apple combined. Sales remained well above a million C64s each ...