35 Years Old IBM PC 5150

[demyansk]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3106730/ ... bm-pc.html

[Qwixt]

"Over the past three and a half decades, architectural descendants of this single machine have taken over the desktop, workstation, server, and even game console markets"

That's quite a stretch just like today's cars are descendants of the Model-T. Technically, true, but there's a lot of distance between the two.

[wings7]

Golden Age of the desktop...I remember those days very well! A good story and visuals...thanks for sharing this! [:)]

[Pvt_Grunt]

Cool! But I wish I could get back all the hours of my life spent watching PC's boot up!

[Kuokkanen]

LGR take on IBM 5150

ORIGINAL: Pvt_Grunt

Cool! But I wish I could get back all the hours of my life spent watching PC's boot up!

Commodore 64 boot up much faster, but time it takes to load a game from cassette... [8|]

[Greybriar]

The computer in that article looks a lot like the first PC that I purchased in 1989. I have been using towers of some type since 1994, but the basic layout remains the same--computer, keyboard, mouse, and monitor. But today's computers are so much faster amd more powerful.

[E]

ORIGINAL: Greybriar
But today's computers are so much faster amd more powerful.

I replaced the CPU on my first IBM, sped the machine up from 1mhz to a blazingly fast 1.03mhz!!!

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: E

ORIGINAL: Greybriar
But today's computers are so much faster amd more powerful.

I replaced the CPU on my first IBM, sped the machine up from 1mhz to a blazingly fast 1.03mhz!!!

Haa? What IBM is that? 5110?

[Richie61]

WOW! That was my first work computer!

[Marvin88]

Wow... i'm freaking old.

[demyansk]

Good stuff, my Nvidia 760 card, konked out but still surviving with my 285 card, keep the old stuff around, I wish I had my Commodore

[aaatoysandmore]

I have 4 commodore 64's, 2 amiga 500's, 486 sx 25, (ex took P166), XP 1800 amd, Win7 workstation basic, and a Vista 64.

Just about everything still runs on my Vista 64 now with dosbox and some emulators.

[VPaulus]

bump

[Marvin88]

I have a Heathkit H8 (home built), Pet, Apple II, II+, IIc and a II GS signed by Steve Wozniak.

Did I mention I have a TRS-80?

I paid $2,000 for an external hard drive for my II GS. It had a whopping[:D] 5 MB of storage....[:D]

[Kuokkanen]

The days when computers had enough memory to last for a lifetime...

[Marvin88]

ORIGINAL: Matti Kuokkanen

The days when computers had enough memory to last for a lifetime...

I think my H8 had 4k of ram... and we programed on the front of the box in split octal ...