Happy 25th Birthday to the PC

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Happy 25th Birthday to the PC

Posted: 8/12/06 at 8:53pm

August 12, 1981. If you were ready to plunk down about $1,600, you could have owned a piece of history: The original IBM 5150 PC, generally considered to be the "first" PC.

and, what i think is even more interesting, the evolution of personal computers:

http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml
Happy Birthday to the PC

XING
PED

re: Happy 25th Birthday to the PC

Posted: 8/12/06 at 8:54pm

My ex had one that ran on DOS. i don't know how old it is, though.

Anyway, happy 25th birthday to the CRAPPIEST COMPUTERS IN AMERICA! WOO!

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re: Happy 25th Birthday to the PC

Posted: 8/13/06 at 1:36am

The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time

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re: Happy 25th Birthday to the PC

Posted: 8/13/06 at 7:19am

What about charles Babbage's computer? Does that not count? It was a computer, and it was his, so you could say it was personal, and, well, it didn't do very much but it was a PC! Ages before IBM!

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deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

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Arthur Miller

re: Happy 25th Birthday to the PC

Posted: 8/13/06 at 7:28am

Who the hell is Charles Babbage?

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re: Happy 25th Birthday to the PC

Posted: 8/13/06 at 7:59am

The original Pioneer of the computer.

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