- In February of 1978 IBM began working on its first microcomputer—and it still wasn't the IBM PC. It was a machine called the System/23 Datamaster.
- The year is 1980 and IBM representatives meet in secret with Bill Gates to talk about an operating system for a hush-hush new personal computer, the IBM PC.
- The high quality (and very noisy) keyboard is the same as the IBM Datamaster, a business computer released earlier in the same year as the "PC".
- The IBM PC Model 5150 was originally introduced in August 1981. Price at Introduction: $1,995.00. Standard Memory: 16k bytes .
- IBM PC DOS Version 1.1 No software was supplied bundled with the IBM PC, but a number of applications were available from IBM at launch, including
- Versions of PC-DOS paralleled that of MS-DOS up until version 6.1, where PC-DOS was independently maintained by IBM up until 7.1, the last version.
- 1981 yılında Apple’in kişisel bilgisayar(Personal Computer=PC) satışlarındaki başarısı IBM firmasını da bu rekabete girmeye mecbur bıraktı ve IBM 1981 yılında IBM...
- Thus, the expensive modification of the IBM PC was created for business (where, by the way, it became quite widespread), and cheaper for the home.
- One of the original marketing photos for the IBM 5150, the landmark personal computer that ushered in the PC revolution IBM.
- IBM PC has built-in CGA by default, and MDA can be selected for business use . Correspondingly, there were two types of monitors .