The PC Turns 30

[cosworth151]

Happy Birthday, PC! Without you, there wouldn't be a GP Wizard.

On 13 August, 1981, IBM unveiled its new Personal Computer, known as The PC. It came standard with 16k of ram and a 160k floppy drive. The price was $1,565, which would be about $4,000 in today's money. The heart of the unit was the 4.77 MHz Intel 8088. If you had the extra cash, you could stretch it all the way out to 256k of ram! Time magazine later named the PC The Man of the Year.

I remember them well. They ran on DOS and were followed by the PC Jr, the PC XT and the PC AT.

http://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/Ibm-Pc.htm

[Alianora La Canta]

Happy birthday PC and many happy returns! 

I remember having a PC AT as my first computer (it was a hand-me-down from Granddad as a present in 1996). It had an 8086 (the processor after the 8088) and a whopping 640kB of RAM. Worked wonderfully even if the games now look like something off a mobile phone*. Maniac Mansion, Jumpman, Rogue and Paganitzu were a lot of fun

* - Even this is a credit to the enduring quality of those early games, since my "mobile phone" has a 200MHz processor and 32 MB of RAM equivalent...

[Wizzo]

I still have a boxed working version of my first computer. 

http://oldcomputers.net/vic20.html