PC is 25 years old tomorrow

BendiBus

The IBM PC was launched on August 12th 1981

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/technology_ibm_pc_anniversary/html/1.stm

They'll never catch on!

Zillah

Ha! Flim flam! *goes back to typewriter*

Heathen

wow... i actually still have a complete one of them at home, dot matrix printer and all.. in working order with loads of old software on old big floppy disks!!

weeder

can ive it?

Ruu_Old

Happy 25th Pee Cee!

Slippin Jimmy

Ruu wrote:

Happy 25th Pee Cee!

Curses on you Ruu, I was just gona say that:mad:

oisin

I've still got my first PC in the attic. Its an Amstrad 1640, came with two 5 1/4 floppy drives. One to boot from and one for data, no hard disk (although I later bought a hard card for it 32 MB - I thought it was huge). 4 MB ram. Colour monitor. QWERTY keyboard - I upgraded from a Sinclair Spectrum (also in the attic). Can't remember what the processor is, probably a 386.

I thought it was the bees knees - cutting edge technology!

I must dig it out and see if it still works. Happy days.

aidan_walsh

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projectmayhem

aidan_walsh wrote:

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translated: Happy 25th Brithday, IBM-compatible PC!

l33t hax0rs unite

PogMoThoin

Com...put...ers.....they'll never take off.......who'd want 1 anyway?

Creamy Goodness

Bill Gates: "computers will never use more than 64k of memory"

love to see windows running on that

stevejazzx

disk operating system = dos......lol ahhhhhhhh never knew!

Sam Vimes

aidan_walsh wrote:

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hobie

well my PS2-286 is still on a shelf just above me and ready to run ...... just switch it on and away it goes .... I would guess it's circa 1988 or 89? ....

PogMoThoin

:rolleyes: Got anything else exciting in your attic. I'd have it fcuked out ages ago. It even still works.........wow

hobie

Got anything else exciting in your attic

not really into Attic Storage .....

.... but I do have an old Dell XPS T600 (6 or maybe 7 years old) on another shelf that still powers up ok ...

chump

Paddy Casey?

Thought he was older than that!



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bizmark

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irlrobins

Agh, enough is enough. This isn't AH.