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demyansk -> 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 (8/13/2016 12:12:49 AM)

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



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

"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.



wings7 -> RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 (8/13/2016 1:03:32 AM)

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



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

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



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

LGR take on IBM 5150


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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|]



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

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.



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


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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!!!



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

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ORIGINAL: E


quote:

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?



Richie61 -> RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 (8/14/2016 1:49:35 AM)

WOW! That was my first work computer!



Marvin88 -> RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 (8/14/2016 4:42:30 AM)

Wow... i'm freaking old.



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

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



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

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.



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

bump



Marvin88 -> RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 (8/21/2016 6:14:16 PM)

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]



Kuokkanen -> RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 (8/22/2016 3:50:34 PM)

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



Marvin88 -> RE: 35 Years Old IBM PC 5150 (8/22/2016 4:33:10 PM)


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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 ...



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