The personal computer industry began in 1977 ... In 1986, Compaq ushered in the first Intel 386-based machine. A year later, IBM introduced the PS/2 with improved graphics, a new 3.5" floppy ...

Software Arts develops the first spreadsheet program ... is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August, 1981. The Apple Macintosh ...

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 ...

Apple announced the Macintosh 41 years ago today, introducing the first widely successful personal computer with a graphical ...

By the late seventies, even IBM had begun to notice the explosive growth of personal computer companies like Apple. Commercial The Apple 2 - small inexpensive and simple to use the first ...

With this in mind, let’s look at a personal brand favorite of ... process but used other vendors to build its computers. This ...

so IBM had to roll out the IBM7080, which was compatible, at least, with the 705. Both machines could run 650 code via emulation. Hardly a personal computer, this beast weighed over 23,000 pounds ...

the power of the microchip was conveyed first and foremost through physical form. IBM is over a century old, a massive multinational even before the dawn of the computer age. Through research and ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the personal computer industry ... as it had with its previous computers, IBM contacted third parties to help make its first PC product. The reasoning was ...