Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that ... text-based glory as it would have looked in the early 1980s. (Thanks to [Stephen Walters] for the tip) ...

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...

IBM was a computer juggernaut in the late 1970s ... and if you have any interest in computer history of the 1980s, you’ll definitely want to check it out. Estridge died in 1985, so he didn ...

By 1980 Apple has captured 50% of the personal computer market. In 1980 Microsoft is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August ...

The supposedly portable computers of the early 1980s, such as Osborne 1 and Compaq ... business applications and it didn’t follow the IBM PC standard, which was rapidly becoming the basis ...

with up to four units able to attach to the IBM System/30 midrange computer for a total capacity of 2.3 GBs. 1980: The First Gigabyte-capacity Hard Disk The IBM 3380, introduced in 1980 ...

The IBM mainframe line that superseded System/360. Introduced in 1970, the System/370 added virtual memory and other enhancements. In the early 1980s, IBM added Extended Architecture (XA ...

1980 - IBM introduced the first 1GB hard drive ... setting a standard for desktop computer drives. It held 10MB at a cost of $1,895, or almost $4,500 today. 1988 - Prairie Tek released the ...

Although the PC was never likely to displace the mainframe ... The decision to launch three new System 390 products extends the rivalry. In the early 1980s, IBM had three divisions: data processing ...