IBM PC TURNS 20

IBM PC TURNS 20

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Wireless Flash) – The 20th anniversary of IBM’s first personal computer is just around the corner. On August 12, 1981, the company introduced its first PC model, which cost around $3000 – nearly $5700 in today’s dollars. Despite that whopper of a price tag, the computer didn’t have a hard drive, just a monochrome monitor and a tiny speaker that emitted nothing but beeps. That didn’t hurt sales, though: IBM sold about 13,000 of the PCs in the first four months. Computers have come a long way since then, and the folks at Intel – who supplied the brain chip for that first PC – say a typical computer today runs at least 300 times faster.

Tue 07-31-01