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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
July 12, 2006 — -- Twenty five years ago this week, Prince Charles and Princess Diana were on their honeymoon, the Space Shuttle had one flight … and -- oh, by the way -- the world was changing.
eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Although IBM’s launch of the Personal Computer (IBM 5150) ...
Guess whose birthday it is today. Nope, not us, we had ours a couple months ago-- so did Apple. August 12th marks the birthday of the IBM PC, the big, ugly, beige box that kicked off the computing ...
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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