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 ...

When I think of American IBM PC history, I think of button-down shirts, pocket protectors, and expensive but very well-built machines. I think "industry" and "productivity"â of machines with very ...

In some ways, the most far-reaching decision made by the team that built the IBM PC was to use an open architecture rather than one that was proprietary to IBM. That decision led to the market for add ...

Bill Lowe joined IBM in 1962 and spent 26 years with the company William C Lowe, who supervised the birth of IBM's first personal computer, has died aged 72 in Lake Forest, Illinois. The IBM Personal ...

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 ...

IBM, a pioneer of the personal computer business, is selling its PC hardware division to China's number one computer maker Lenovo. After days of rumours, the announcement heralds a $1.75bn (£900m) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Lowe was the mastermind behind IBM's first personal computer, the IBM 5150, the first to be successfully mass produced and mass marketed. It expanded the company's reach into small businesses, ...

Google, Apple and Facebook get all the attention. But what about the company that invented barcodes, a computer that almost thinks like a human and enables you to save a file on your laptop or even ...

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