The earliest known version of 86-DOS, which is basically the great grandfather of Microsoft DOS has arrived on the internet, thanks to a tech enthusiast who has uploaded the version to the Archive.
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The first IBM PC was launched on August 12, 1981. It and its many clones quickly dominated the PC market and helped Microsoft and Intel become huge tech companies that remain big to this day.
After Microsoft launched its SoftCard add-on for the Apple II PC, it released a number of similar cards for IBM PCs, but a few years later the company shut down that hardware division.
The Intel 8088 processor was launched on June 1, 1979, and a few years later IBM picked this CPU to be inside its first personal computer. 44 years later, the influence of the 8088 is still felt.
The IBM PC-XT had a lot more expansion slots compared to the first IBM PC that launched in 1981, but it was not as big of a leap in other hardware specs. It also had a rival PC in the Compaq Portable.
IBM reproduces the original press release from August 12, 1981 that officially announced the launch of the IBM personal computer.
One of the original designers of the IBM PC says that the PC is no longer at the head of the computing industry, going the way of the typewriter and CRT monitors.
Microsoft celebrates the 30th anniversary of the IBM PC a couple of days early with an article that looks ahead to the future of the PC and Microsoft's Windows operating system.
On June 16, 1911 a company called Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) officially opened for business in New York City. In 1924 it changed its name to something most of you recognize: International Business Machines, otherwise known...
