posted on August 8, 2001 05:14:22 PM
Well, it doesn't seem that long, but exactly 20 years ago Sunday, IBM came out with the "PC". There where desk top computers before that (I owned one before that), but the "PC" is what became the "standard", and really got the "ball rolling". We've come a long way in 20 years.
posted on August 9, 2001 12:21:58 PM
It's interesting that IBM was not invited to the PC festivities! Maybe the fact that they blatantly ripped off Apple has something to do with it. I guess it wouldn't be PC for the PC. LOL!
posted on August 9, 2001 12:35:39 PM
IBM did not "rip off" Apple. They competed with them. That's business.
YOu can liken Apple computers & PCs to beta and VHS. Beta started the ball rolling, but failed to carry it, leaving VHS the clear winner. Apple didn't do what needed to be done to winner the war for customers...
posted on August 9, 2001 01:35:16 PM
The problem with Apples (and most other small computers at the time) was that they Maxed out on memory at 64K (not 64 megs .
Ok, (before someone points it out) there where ways to use more memory than that, but the CPU's couldn't access more than 64k at a time.
IBM, and Microsoft ran into the same problem at 640k, and had to trash the pc, and go to 286's and memory managers.
posted on August 10, 2001 03:14:44 PM
Pentium 10 chips will be implanted directly into our brains at birth allowing instant access to all the information in the world as it is being created. After market saturation reaches 99%, Intel and IBM throw the big switch whereupon the human race comes uder their direct control.
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