The original IBM Personal Computer (PC) (Model 5150) came standard with 16k of ... Memory: 64k to 640k of RAM, 40-64k BASIC ROM on true IBM models. Graphics: Varied. 80 x 25 text mode standard ...

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After just 12 months of development under the code name "Chess," IBM released the Personal Computer in August 1981 at a starting price of $1,565 for the base model with 16K RAM, a color graphics ...

As ubiquitous as they might be now, in the 1970s, few things were more mysterious and unknown than the “personal computer.” For years, these shadowy, ever-shrinking machines had been touted as ...

WHAT Is the IBM 5150? Courtesy Rama & Musée Bolo - Own work. Marketed as one of the first personal computers, the IBM 5150 consisted of a system unit, a keyboard, a color/graphics capability and ...

IBM introduces the 5150 personal computer. ... ($7,150 today), and souped up with color graphics and 256 kB, it'd cost you about $6,000 ($14,900 today).

-- Chicago Tribune, "Personal computers to join IBM lineup." Aug. 13, 1981. IBM changed the world on Aug. 12, 1981, when it launched the 5150 personal computer.

No, personal computer (PC) was a generic term before the IBM Personal Computer was introduced on August 12, 1981. It was used as early as 1973 to characterise the Xerox PARC's ...

Around 1980, IBM began knocking on doors in the microcomputer industry under the pretense of potentially licensing existing computer hardware to serve as its own IBM-branded personal computer. IBM ...

To rival the cortex inside your head, IBM predicts it will need to hook up 880,000 processors, which it hopes to achieve by 2019. Read more about Computers vs. Brains in the November 2011 issue of ...

This was something also grasped by its biggest competitor: IBM, the first giant in the American computer industry. IBM didn’t officially enter the “personal” market until 1981, when it jump ...