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Happy Birthday, Personal Computer. Rest in Peace.

Happy Birthday, Personal Computer. Rest in Peace.

By Zoli Erdos on August 2, 2011

Business Insider reminds us that today is the 30th birthday of the original IBM PC: the computer’s brain was a 4.77Mhz Intel 8088 processor (for my younger readers, it’s Mega not Giga) and it had a grand total of 256K RAM (again, it’s not 256 GB, not even MB, but Kilobytes).  Yet it was a […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged computing history, ibm pc, microsoft, Mobile Computing, ms dos, Personal computer, ui, user interface, windows

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