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Meet Android's patron saint: The <endeca_term>IBM PC</endeca_term>

Meet Android's patron saint: The IBM PC

...was pain, and lots of it. Can Android learn lessons from the IBM PC? Image credit: IBM Inadvertently, IBM saved the day. It had commissioned... Read more

6 April, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

The IBM PC: legends from the dawn of time

...IBM launched its model 5150 computer - far more widely known as the IBM PC. Its creation and subsequent influence on IT, from home technology to... Read more

12 August, 2011

Happy 30th birthday, IBM PC (and clicky keyboard

...than others, with the Apple II being a notable example. However, the IBM PC was something else. I didn't get an IBM PC on... Read more

12 August, 2011

30 years on, how Bill Gates saw MS-DOS

...soon be the 30th anniversary of the launch of the world-changing IBM PC in August 1981, and technically it's also the 30th anniversary... Read more

31 July, 2011
Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...decade, but in the end the PC market was won by the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh platforms. Following several releases that failed to replicate... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer

UK PC market grows as Western Europe declines

...sales, followed by Acer, Toshiba, and Lenovo. Lenovo -- which combines the former IBM PC division with China's Great Wall and now Germany's Medion... Read more

11 May, 2012
Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

...s Radio Shack) and had to reckon with the debut of the IBM PC."Overseeing Apple's growth has kept Jobs too busy to spend... Read more

25 August, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings
Acorns land at Bletchley Park

Acorns land at Bletchley Park

...in British IT in the 1980s, but faded with the onslaught of IBM PC compatibles. Uniquely, it had one ace up its sleeve — the ARM... Read more

25 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Intel's victims: Eight would-be giant killers

Intel's victims: Eight would-be giant killers

...Commodore, Sinclair and many Unix makers, and was almost selected for the IBM PC. Industry fable has it that Motorola disbanded the design team immediately... Read more

4 December, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Apple and Microsoft: 10 moments of truce

Apple and Microsoft: 10 moments of truce

...its forward-looking Macintosh computer in the early 1980s to combat the IBM PC, which was out-pacing the Apple II, Microsoft was one of... Read more

4 November, 2010 by Jason Hiner

Inside LEO, the first business computer

The Lyons Electronic Office, which turns 60 on Thursday, has some surprisingly modern design features, due in large part to the antique technology from which it was built Read more

17 November, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories

From father of the internet Vint Cerf to visionary sci-fi author William Gibson, the hardware that got IT's hall of fame started... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

Booting Windows 8 in 2 seconds

...come from replacing the antique BIOS code -- which started life in the IBM PC in 1981 -- with the more modern Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI... Read more

9 September, 2011
IBM at 100: A prosperous failure

IBM at 100: A prosperous failure

...so on, while Google is clearly the IBM of the web. The IBM PC, launched in 1981, was a turning point for the company. Photo... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Schofield
Exhibition charts the history of computing

Exhibition charts the history of computing

...State of the art home-computing tech from 1984 included an IBM PC, an Apple Mac and an Apple Lisa. Photo credit: Scott Ard... Read more

26 January, 2011 by Scott Ard

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