If it is an IBM it must have a number. It was the IBM 5150 Personal Computer: it had a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 processor. Right away, that was a contentious point for the system; IBM maintained that ...

Obviously, the IBM PC came from IBM, but that simplistic statement hardly tells the story of how IBM’s PC—introduced in 1981—changed the way people use computers. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of ...

The IBM PC, which IBM had from the start envisioned as a true "anything machine," would now have no fewer than four available operating paradigms: the ROM-hosted BASIC, MS-DOS, CP/M, or UCSD Pascal.

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the IBM 5150 PC, the company's first personal computer. Until 1981, IBM had mostly been focused on large-scale mainframe computing for businesses, but with ...

But when IBM stamped its name on its first personal computer 20 years ago this Sunday, the PC's place as a fixture of home and business life was all but assured.

On the eve of the IBM PC's 30th anniversary, Mark Dean says the PC era is on its last legs. As one of the IBM engineers who helped create the original PC, he is certainly qualified to make this claim.

Thirty years ago, IBM launched its model 5150 computer - far more widely known as the IBM PC.Its creation and subsequent influence on IT, from home technology to the largest supercomputers, are ...