What could have happened had the IBM PC not taken the paths it did to become the prototype stepping stone to modern computing?
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Happy 40th Birthday, IBM PC!
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the IBM PC, which shaped the direction of the entire PC industry. To celebrate this grand milestone, we examine what would have happened if IBM had made different decisions, look back at what Bill Gates told us about the IBM PC in a 1982 interview (!!!), do a teardown of the historic Model 5150, and more.
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the IBM PC
Anyone who uses a desktop or laptop computer owes it all to the first IBM PC, which set a standard for the industry 40 years ago. This is its story.
This interview appeared in the first issue of PC Magazine in early 1982. Our then-Publisher David Bunnell spoke with a young Bill Gates about Microsoft's contributions to the first IBM PC.
Here's where it all began: This is an excerpt of a review of the original IBM PC, which appeared in the first issue of PC Magazine in February-March of 1982.
The reason Microsoft became so big comes down to the best deal ever made in the history of computing, between the fledgling software company co-founded by Bill Gates and IBM.
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.
Intel was inside the first personal computer, but how and why it got picked is sometimes a matter of contention.
Being able to swap the parts in and out of a personal computer became the norm because of a series of decisions IBM made to get the first PC launched quickly.
Nothing gold can stay. On the IBM PC's 40th anniversary, we look at the software that made the PC platform popular—and see whether they've survived to the present.
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