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  • On this day in Tech History: The IBM PC

    From X-News - BBS RSS Feed to All on Thu Aug 13 10:53:43 2026
    IBM introduces its Personal Computer (PC) also known as the IBM Model 5150, lending legitimacy to microprocessor-based computers. IBM's first PC ran with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor and used Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system.

    Steve Jobs was quoted in a 1985 interview, "If … IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter sort of a computer Dark Ages for about 20 years."

    Would you like to know more?

    [https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/august/12/] [https://grokipedia.com/page/IBM_Personal_Computer]

    https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/august/12/
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