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35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/13/2016 12:12:49 AM

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/3106730/hardware/inside-the-ibm-pc-5150-the-first-ever-ibm-pc.html

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/13/2016 12:17:43 AM

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"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.

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/13/2016 1:03:32 AM

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

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/13/2016 8:23:25 AM

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

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/13/2016 1:22:29 PM

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LGR take on IBM 5150

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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...

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/13/2016 2:56:15 PM

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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.

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/13/2016 6:46:38 PM

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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!!!

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/13/2016 8:04:07 PM

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quote:

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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?

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/14/2016 1:49:35 AM

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WOW! That was my first work computer!

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/14/2016 4:42:30 AM

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Wow... i'm freaking old.

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/18/2016 1:39:02 AM

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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

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/19/2016 2:09:58 AM

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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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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/19/2016 10:19:04 AM

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bump

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RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 - 8/21/2016 6:14:16 PM

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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