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Happy Birthday - IBM PC


source: BBC

Twenty five years of the IBM PC IBM PC


The IBM PC made communication history
Computer firm IBM made technological history on 12 August 1981 with the announcement of a personal computer - the IBM 5150.

Costing $1,565, the 5150 had just 16K of memory - scarcely more than a couple of modest e-mails worth.

The machine was not the first attempt to popularise computing but it soon came to define the global standard.

It altered the way business was done forever and sparked a revolution in home computing...




I wrote my first program in 1981 on one of these little beauties:



Amazing what we could do with the vast 1k RAM...
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Dont forget the Comadoor 65.

I had all of them

Com 65

ZX Spectram

Green LED IBM 286 with the large 40meg hard drive and 2 meg ram.

All the memory you will ever need

said the sales rep.

I also had the DOS Q&A Data base system which was excelent


And I beleive still used by the makers of the VR3 20 years later


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yep, the C64 was another legend



Its 25th is next year...
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Talking Happy days
Wandering into smiths

getting to a>
typing something like
For I = 1 to 1000000
print "This machine is now faulty"
next I
End

and then wandering off

I remember trying to use a ZX81 and being mystified that every button had three options.

When do we celebrate birth of Visicalc?
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visicalc is 27 !
It will still run on todays PC !

VisiCalc Download

Hum ... what was mark saying about VR3s...
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visicalc is 27 !
It will still run on todays PC !

VisiCalc Download

Hum ... what was mark saying about VR3s...
Amazing it uses less disk space than most avatars. It certainly made beancounting more tolerable.
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