File this under the “wouldn’t it be cool if …?” category. IBM is developing a computer system that could theoretically customize healthy recipes based on your personal taste buds.

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 ...

Most early adopters of IBM's 5150 PC ran a Microsoft operating system known at the time as PC-DOS, which cost users $40. __1981: __IBM introduces the 5150 personal computer. It will sweep away the ...