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Intel's first blockbuster chip was the 8088 – and it changed everything 45 years ago
Without the 8088 we wouldn't have the likes of the IBM Model 5150 – commonly known as the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) – which was one of the first machines to use it when it launched in 1981.
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It Was One Of The Biggest Events In Business History
The future had arrived. On that date – 43 years ago this week – IBM introduced its personal computer: the 5150. It wasn’t the first – Tandy, Commodore, and Apple were already at the ...
How to Play the Next Big Thing: the Rise of Tesla’s Robotaxi
When a revolutionary new product launches, what’s the best way to invest in its success? By buying that product-maker’s stock ...
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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 ...
PBS7y
A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER: MICRO
By 1980 Apple has captured 50% of the personal computer market. In 1980 Microsoft is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August ...
PBS2y
THE TELEVISION PROGRAM TRANSCRIPTS: PART II
But IBM made mainframe computers for large companies, not personal computers -- at least not yet. For the PC to be taken seriously by big business, the nerds of Silicon Valley had to meet the ...
BBC2y
IBM claims advance in quantum computing
Eagle is the first IBM processor to surpass 100 qubits IBM has unveiled an advanced "quantum" processor that is part of an effort to build super-fast computers. These machines could revolutionise ...
PC Magazine3y
Mac computer
Windows world for personal computers. As of 2023 ... the higher-performance PowerPC chip designed by Apple, Motorola and IBM. Power Macs ran native PowerPC applications and emulated traditional ...
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IBM collaborates with British designers to create first standalone quantum supercomputer
IBM is over a century old, a massive multinational even before the dawn of the computer age. Through research and innovation, IBM came to dominate the nascent market for mainframe computers, parlaying ...
Forbes1mon
IBM Brings Together Partners To Accelerate Quantum Computing Adoption
Quantum utility was achieved in 2023 when IBM and UC Berkeley demonstrated that quantum computers could extract results from quantum computing problems beyond the ability of brute-force classical ...