ibm (CBS) - Happy birthday to IBM's Model 5150, which supported only 40 characters, 16 colors, 160KB floppies and a joystick port. In case you don't remember, this personal computer was introduced ...

IBM Model 5150 1 Articles . Book8088 Slows Down To Join The Demoscene. September 12, 2023 by Dan Maloney 9 Comments . As obsolete as the original IBM Model 5150 PC may appear, it’s pretty much ...

PC Labs, in the distant past, may have had a wild party inside its relic Model 5150 for the IBM PC’s 20th or 25th anniversary. One of the floppy drives had been removed, and was sitting ...

Getting Area 5150 running on an emulator wasn’t enough for [GloriousCow], though, so a deep dive into exactly what’s happening on the bus of an original IBM Model 5150 was in order.

If any other company of the era built and marketed the IBM Personal Computer Model 5150, it might be looked back on with fondness but not as a product that changed an industry.

IBM recognized that the PC business was becoming increasingly commoditized, something it had started with the 5150. And it recognized that the once rapid growth of the market was a thing of the past.

Without the 8088 we wouldn't have the likes of the IBM Model 5150 – commonly known as the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) – which was one of the first machines to use it when it launched in 1981.

To see just how far we've come, we looked at the very first PC, the IBM Personal Computer Model 5150 from 1981, and compared it with several of its spiritual successors—a popular IBM PS/2 from ...

This indicated a later revision of the Model 5150. Alas, our IBM PC was not an “original” original, an OG 1981 PC. It had been assembled a few years after. Best guess: 1984.

This indicated a later revision of the Model 5150. Alas, our IBM PC was not an “original” original, an OG 1981 PC. It had been assembled a few years after. Best guess: 1984.