michael Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 The first proper PC is 25 today IBM 5150 Released August 12th 1981 Discontinued April 2nd 1987 Processor - Intel 8088 @ 4.77 MHz Memory - 16KB ~ 640KB OS - IBM BASIC / MS-DOS 1.0 Awaits geeky attacks telling me about the Altair 8800 and more.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soonto_HAS_soop Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Surely it's 25 tomorrow then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 No, they built them the day before... maybe.... erm... isn't it Saturday then? Bollocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soonto_HAS_soop Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin_a Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Story of building it is really interesting actually. Plus it launched a mass of other component companies and created the monster that is Microsoft. m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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