Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that newfangled ‘WWW’ to stay up to date on all the goings-on in the world? Fret not, because [Al’s Geek L… ...

In late 1983, industry experts forecast a major clash of computer titans in the coming year. No, it wasn’t a showdown between the Macintosh and the IBM PC–it was a supposed face-off between ...

That was the position [Anders Nielsen] found himself in as work progresses on his “PC-XT from Scratch” project, which seeks to build a working mid-80s vintage IBM Model 5160 using as many ...

One of those companies was IBM. The original x86 PC was a project that was turned around inside of a year by a small team within IBM, and a decision to use an "open" architecture (not in the ...

IBM wasn’t too happy about being bested by Compaq on its home turf, of course; Big Blue released its own 386-based PC the following year, which you will see ahead. AT&T UNIX PC (1985) Image by ...

IBM PC client allows futuristic AI conversations on vintage hardware. On Sunday, Singapore-based retrocomputing enthusiast Yeo Kheng Meng released a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS that can run on a 4. ...

A hobbyist software developer and retro computing enthusiast has accomplished an impressive feat by bridging the gap between ChatGPT and the vintage IBM PC-XT computer, which released all the way back ...

Telnet Address: heatwave.ddns.net:9640 Even after all these years, 16-color ANSI artwork is still a mainstay of IBM PC-based BBSes. It uses the IBM PC extended character set, which includes ...

In these vintage Radio Shack ads, we see the evolution of Tandy computers from proprietary designs to IBM PC clones. It's a little depressing to see the ads go from fun scenario-based adventures ...

But when IBM stamped its name on its first personal computer 20 years ago this Sunday, the PC's place as a fixture of home and business life was all but assured.

Spec Showdown: The Original IBM 5150 vs. Today's PCs. Just for kicks, let's compare the specs of the 1981-vintage computer that inspired the birth of PC Magazine to some modern-day desktops.

Does anybody want to buy a computer collection I have been gathering since 1993? This is less than half of it. I am considering a move, and I'm not sure these can go with me to the new place.