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 ...

IBM, known previously for its huge mainframe computers meant for large corporations, decided to get in on this new market and launch a PC of its own. Inside of designing its first PC completely on ...

However, by the time IBM announced the PC AT model in 1984, other vendors had succeeded at cloning, and the PC market began to explode. See AT. In 1986, Compaq ushered in the first Intel 386-based ...

IBM was one of the earliest frontrunners in artificial intelligence. The company, known for designing some of the world’s ...

But that early adopter number changed when IBM introduced its first PC in 1981. Although the first IBM 8088 PC cost $1585, the interest in this PC was strong. Indeed, the IBM PC powered the PC ...

Key players from Seattle Computer Products were interviewed about creating the first DOS and how it became MS-DOS on IBM PCs, which sparked Microsoft's rapid growth and prosperity. Moreover ...