SAN JOSE, California -- A white cursor blinks in the monitor's top left corner. From beneath, a slab of machinery whirs, shudders and falls expectantly quiet. Introduced 30 years ago, and once ...

If you were a K–12 student in those years and you recall the glow of green text on the black screen of a PC at your school or in your home, you might have been working on an IBM 5150 or one of its ...

On August 12, 1981, IBM rented out a ballroom at the elegant Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York and introduced its landmark 5150 personal computer. Looking at the beige box today, nothing seems ...

This classic, historic PC has been looking down on PCMag's PC Labs for longer than anyone on our team can remember. For its big 40, we cleaned it up...and tore it down. I have been a technology ...

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the IBM 5150 PC, the company's first personal computer. Until 1981, IBM had mostly been focused on large-scale mainframe computing for businesses ...

(Video embedded, below) As luck would have it, [Oli] owns a 40-year-old IBM PC 5150 as well as the matching IBM 5151 monitor, so it was a simple matter to implement the effect in 8088 assembler to ...

(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 to ...

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. I've been writing about computers, the internet, and ...

Trying to recreate some of the excitement of an event that happened 33 years ago is a challenge for anyone, but a good place to start is with the bald facts. On 12 August 1981, IBM, at that time ...

ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY AUGUST 5 — This is an undated file photo of The original IBM 5150 PC. When IBM Corp. introduced its first personal computer in August 1981, the Apple II was a dominating force of ...