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 ...

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.

[Yeo Kheng Meng] didn’t cheat by simply running MS-DOS on a modern PC, either: he tested the client on a real 1984 vintage IBM 5155 Portable PC. This semi-portable PC/XT model sports a 4.77 MHz ...

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.

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 ...