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 character ...

IBM, which revolutionised the global computer industry when it launched its first desktop in 1981, has sold its PC business to a Chinese group in a $1.75bn (£900m) deal, it was confirmed today. The ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. William Lowe, who oversaw the creation of IBM's first ...

IBM, the US technology giant that invented the standard desktop personal computer, has outsourced completely its PC manufacturing in the US and Scotland to Sanmina-SCI, the world's third-largest ...

An IBM chief technical engineer has sparked controversy after claiming that the personal computer - which he helped design - is dead. Dr Mark Dean, who was one of a dozen men to pioneer the first IBM ...

On August 12, 1981, IBM introduced the IBM Personal Computer. This wasn't the first PC, but it did create the standards that in many ways have dominated personal computing for most of the past 30 ...

The personal computer has come of age. This week the PC celebrated its 21st birthday and by this we mean the IBM PC. There are people who argue over which computer can rightly be called the first PC.

ATLANTA, Georgia -- It was a match made in computer heaven. The May-December marriage of a young company called Microsoft and business powerhouse IBM would change the landscape of offices and homes ...

Just over 43 years ago, the dawn of a new era started when IBM launched the first true personal computer, the 5150 which I fondly remember by its moniker, IBM PC. The recent new Mac Mini announcement ...

Computer firm IBM made technological history on 12 August 1981 with the announcement of a personal computer - the IBM 5150. Costing $1,565, the 5150 had just 16K of memory - scarcely more than a ...

William C Lowe, who supervised the birth of IBM's first personal computer, has died aged 72 in Lake Forest, Illinois. The IBM Personal Computer, known as the 5150, was launched in August 1981, several ...