IBM PC motherboard with 5 expansion slots by German CC BY-SA 3.0. It would have an open architecture, a decision influenced by many IBM employees who were themselves users of the Apple II, ...

A smaller version of the original AT motherboard used in the IBM PC/AT. Introduced in 1987, the Baby AT reduced width from 12" to 8.5". Although its maximum length was 13", most boards were only 9 ...

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the IBM 5150 PC, the company's first personal computer. PM got to speak with two of the original team members on what it felt like to witness the computer ...

Obviously, the IBM PC came from IBM, but that simplistic statement hardly tells the story of how IBM’s PC—introduced in 1981—changed the way people use. Aspencore network. News & Analytics ... Altair ...

The IBM PC-XT originally was sold with 128KB of memory, but later versions had 256 KB and finally 640 KB of memory on the motherboard. You had to purchase the monitor for this PC as an accessory ...

IBM officially announced the IBM PC on August 12, 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. With 16KB of RAM and a single floppy drive, the machine had a suggested price of $1,565; loaded ...

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 ...

Happy birthday to the IBM PC! 39 years ago today the IBM 5150 either reinvented personal computing or ruined it depending on your point of view.

There was a time when an XT-class motherboard — like the old IBM PC with an 8088 CPU — was a high-tech accomplishment. Now, something like that is easily within reach of the average hobby lab.