The first PC was widely viewed as a novelty, but it helped to spark a business revolution
On 12 August 1981, IBM began selling the first IBM Personal Computer. With a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 processor and a basic specification including just 16kB memory, IBM’s product was already less impres...
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