Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that ... in its text-based glory as it would have looked in the early 1980s. (Thanks to [Stephen Walters] for the tip) ...

We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular ...

A PC that is compatible with the IBM PC and PS/2 standards; essentially, every Windows PC on the market. This term is rarely heard anymore, but it was widely used in the early days when PC vendors ...

Big Blue's Tramp We can't have a list of early 80s computer ads without including the original IBM PC, the 5150. Released in 1981, Big Blue began running a series of print advertisements the ...