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Wednesday, 15 August 2012

postheadericon First PC Released Today

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It's quite a while since I posted a new gadget here, been quite busy with all Olympic Closing thingy. But Oh! For the record and by the record, IBM released the very first PC available for main stream use. It's IBM's 5150. Sound's like Nokia's 510 right, LMAO!

And Check out the 5150's Specs:


º Language: IBM Basic (written and licensed to IBM by Microsoft).
º Keyboard: 83 Keys, 10 function keys, numeric key pad.
º Removable Storage: zero, one or two Full Height 5.25” 160Kb floppy disk drives. Optional tape
drive or hard drive (the machine seen here has a 10Mb hard drive).
º RAM Memory (Random Access Memory): Anywhere between 16 and 256Kb. (The very first
ones shipped with 16Kb and supported a maximum of 64Kb).
º ROM Memory (Read Only Memory): 64 Kb.
º Graphics Capabilities: Depends on installed Graphics card. Typically: Text mode 40 / 80
character X 40 lines) Graphic mode: Monochrome CGA was common (320 X 200 or 640 X 200).
This particular computer has a colour Hercules VGA card in it (640 X 480), which would have
been considered optional and very high end.
º Tone generator: Built in Speaker
º Internal Expansion Slots: 5 Internal 8-bit ISA slots.

Major Successors to the IBM PC 5150:

º IBM 5160 PC/XT (short for"eXtended Technology"). Launched March 8, 1983. It possessed
more expansion slots, a better power-supply and lacked the cassette-port.
º IBM 4860 PC Junior. Launched November, 1983. It was IBM's first attempt at a cheap
consumer-PC. It retained a cassette-port. It was not very successful.
º IBM 5155 Portable PC. Arrived February 29, 1984. It had an integrated monochrome monitor.
º IBM 5170 AT (“Advanced Technology”). Released August 14, 1984. It contained 1.2 MB floppy
drives, a 16/ 24 bit Intel 80286 processor, and supported 16bit Input/Output.
º IBM 5162 XT/286, released September 26, 1986. An ‘AT’ class machine in an “XT” case.
º IBM PS/2 Series. Introduced April 2, 1987. It had MCGA-graphics, 3.5" floppy disks drive and
something new called the "Microchannel bus". 

Ooh! Sexy huh? My sim card even beat it's ROM, LMAO!

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