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Saturday, August 12, 2006
Amazing, i can remember the year when this marvel of a computer, the IBM Personal Computer (PC) 5150, was released as if it were just a few years ago. Dang, 25 years. I’m getting old! Hey, but at least I wasn’t even a teenager, yet at a mere 11 years-old, I understand even back then how much more powerful this was than the Atari 800 my friends down the street had. This thing looked like a real computer, not a toy. Oddly enough, IBM considered Atari’s 8-bit chip for its own PC but wisely decided to go with something different. That different was an Intel chip on an IBM motherboard.
The only thing that saddens me about the 5150 was IBMs decision to go with Microsoft for the operating system known as Disk Operating System, or DOS. 25 years later, IBM no longer makes PCs and Microsoft rules the OS space. 5150. Ironic, huh?
