http://www.slashgear.com/ibm-pc-turns-30-years-old-and-we-reminisce-about-the-very-first-12171438/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 09:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/ibm-pc-turns-30-years-old-and-we-reminisce-about-the-very-first-12171438/#comment-133052 Anonymous Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:56:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=171438#comment-133052 Had one of these, but with TWO floppies and a CGA color display…had to add a memory expansion board to reach 256K, then went CRAZY by adding a 30MB RLL Hard Drive!  State Of The Art, ’til the AT came out…

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/ibm-pc-turns-30-years-old-and-we-reminisce-about-the-very-first-12171438/#comment-130339 Michael Painter Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:21:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=171438#comment-130339 WRONG. The IBM had the 8 bit 8088 chip, not the existing 8086 which was 16 bit. Those of us on the ground at the time wondered why and the only reason  I’ve ever heard was that IBM did not want to invest the additional money as they considered the machine to be of little use.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/ibm-pc-turns-30-years-old-and-we-reminisce-about-the-very-first-12171438/#comment-130340 Michael Painter Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:21:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=171438#comment-130340 WRONG. The IBM had the 8 bit 8088 chip, not the existing 8086 which was 16 bit. Those of us on the ground at the time wondered why and the only reason  I’ve ever heard was that IBM did not want to invest the additional money as they considered the machine to be of little use.

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