On March 8, 1983, IBM released the Personal Computer XT, short for eXtended Technology, or PC/XT, or just XT. It came equipped with a 10 megabyte MFM Full-Height Hard Disk Drive with 306 Cylinders ...

My first PC was a 1985 vintage IBM XT with 256K RAM, Hercules monochrome, and not much else. I got it for free, then spent $30 for a used 10 Mb hard drive (full height!), a green-screen monitor, a ...

Of course, this kind of quality costs money, and a decent-spec IBM PC/XT or AT used to cost around £5,000 in the days when £10,000pa wasn't a bad salary. It was reasonable to spend £80 to £100 ...

There was a time when an XT-class motherboard — like the old IBM PC with an 8088 CPU — was a high-tech accomplishment. Now, something like that is easily within reach of the average hobby lab.

PC XT, which was released in 1983, and can run DOS and early versions of Windows. It also uses electronic paper to achieve high power-saving performance, and is equipped with a solar panel on the ...

But the IBM PC wasn't IBM's first personal computer. Six years earlier, Big Blue unleashed a machine called the IBM 5100. ... Tech Time Warp of the Week: The 50-Pound Portable PC, 1977.

Pascal made its initial appearance in 1970, gaining prominence on IBM PC systems a couple of decades later, primarily due to the popularity of Borland's Turbo Pascal.

Floppies were a pain, and when IBM introduced the PC XT, with a built-in hard drive, some of that pain went away. As you might imagine with an IBM machine, there were a lot of configuration options.

Lenovo's decision to acquire IBM's PC business in 2005 was seen as a headscrather by analysts who thought the Chinese tech giant was making a big mistake. IBM's PC business was a pioneer in the ...