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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1007158" data-attributes="member: 38206">On this day, 12 August 1981, IBM (International Business Machines) introduced the Model 5150 PC&nbsp;(personal computer). The IBM PC ran on the Intel 8088 microprocessor at 4.77 mHz with one or two 160K floppy disk drives. It had 16 kilobytes of memory, expandable to 256k, five 8-bit ISA slots, a 65-watt power supply, no Built-in clock, no built-in serial or parallel&nbsp; ports, and no built-in video capability -- it was available with an optional color monitor. MS-DOS 1.0/1.1 was issued with the PC (IBM later released its own operating system: PC-DOS). Prices started at $1,565. The IBM PC was a smashing success and IBM quickly became the #1 microcomputer company, with Apple dropping to #2.<img src="http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p525/yoseft/heute-ist-12-08-12-imb-erster-pc-image.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1007158, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 12 August 1981, IBM (International Business Machines) introduced the Model 5150 PC (personal computer). The IBM PC ran on the Intel 8088 microprocessor at 4.77 mHz with one or two 160K floppy disk drives. It had 16 kilobytes of memory, expandable to 256k, five 8-bit ISA slots, a 65-watt power supply, no Built-in clock, no built-in serial or parallel ports, and no built-in video capability -- it was available with an optional color monitor. MS-DOS 1.0/1.1 was issued with the PC (IBM later released its own operating system: PC-DOS). Prices started at $1,565. The IBM PC was a smashing success and IBM quickly became the #1 microcomputer company, with Apple dropping to #2. [IMG]http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p525/yoseft/heute-ist-12-08-12-imb-erster-pc-image.jpg[/IMG][/B] [/QUOTE]

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