(There's more on the OS history bit here.) The original IBM Personal Computer came with a version of Microsoft BASIC in ROM. The system was offered with either a CGA or MDA graphic card. The CGA ...

Marketed as one of the first personal computers, the IBM 5150 consisted of a system unit, a keyboard, a color/graphics capability and options including a display, a printer, up to two diskette drives ...

1981: __IBM introduces the 5150 personal computer. It will sweep away the competition and effectively have the field to itself, for a while. For an operating system, IBM first went to Digital ...

IBM PS/2 Model 30 ad Twenty-five years ago, IBM announced the Personal System/2 (PS/2), a ... consumer PC innovations with graphics standards and portable computers (especially with the ThinkPad ...