Forty years ago IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150,. IBM was a latecomer to the home computer market. Apple II, the Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Commodore PET (short fo… ...

If any other company of the era built and marketed the IBM Personal Computer Model 5150, it might be looked back on with fondness but not as a product that changed an industry.

Called the Book 8088, this netbook-sized PC isn’t a pure reproduction of the storied IBM Personal Computer 5150. Instead, it combines genuine original parts ...

To see just how far we've come, we looked at the very first PC, the IBM Personal Computer Model 5150 from 1981, and compared it with several of its spiritual successors—a popular IBM PS/2 from ...

On August 12, 1981, IBM rented out a ballroom at the elegant Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York and introduced its landmark 5150 personal computer. Looking at the beige box today, nothing seems ...

Aug. 12 marked the 30th anniversary of the introduction of IBM's 5150 personal computer. Recently, IBM executive Mark Dean, one of the engineers of the original IBM PC, said the post-PC era is ...

Most early adopters of IBM's 5150 PC ran a Microsoft operating system known at the time as PC-DOS, which cost users $40. 1981: IBM introduces the 5150 personal computer. It will sweep away the ...

ibm (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 ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1981: IBM introduces the 5150 personal computer. It will sweep away the competition and effectively have the field to itself, for a while. Before 1980, IBM made ...

In 1981, the company began selling its IBM 5150 personal computer at a retail price of $1,565, not including a monitor. Other companies were making PCs as early as the 1970s, leaving IBM behind ...

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 ...

Lowe, who was credited with fostering collaboration within the computer industry and led the team that developed IBM's PC, died on Oct. 19 in Lake Forest, Ill., of a heart attack, his daughter ...