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

"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.

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

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

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|]

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.

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!!!

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?

WOW! That was my first work computer!

Wow... i'm freaking old.

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

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.

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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]

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

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 ...