One of those companies was IBM. The original x86 PC was a project that was turned around inside of a year by a small team within IBM, and a decision to use an "open" architecture (not in the ...

Spec Showdown: The Original IBM 5150 vs. Today's PCs. Just for kicks, let's compare the specs of the 1981-vintage computer that inspired the birth of PC Magazine to some modern-day desktops.

The IBM PC was introduced on August 12, 1981. I’ve written about the team who created the PC and why they chose an open architecture, how they ended up with Microsoft’s DOS as the standard OS ...

The IBM x86 PC wasn't the standard computer paradigm yet; therefore, 86-DOS had to provide essential development tools designed to compile programs created in Z80 Assembly language on the Intel ...

The original IBM PC featured an x86 CPU running at 4.77 MHz, significantly faster than the NES's 1.79 MHz processor. To overcome this gap, ...

The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do.Early MS-DOS apps and games worked fine, and the very first Windows versions ...

In 1969, the IBM Schools Computer System Unit was developed. Though it never reached commercial release, ... It’s a half-scale model, but it does use a touch keyboard like the original.