Als Geek Lab | The #IBM PC turns 40: How IBM came to make the PC @AlsGeekLab | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Today, August 12th 2021, marks the 40th anniversary of the IBM PC. IBM were late to the game - by 1981, at least 3 other major competitors had been established for 3 or more years, but as we know, history made the IBM PC the industry standard we have today. How did a behemoth of a company, notorious for taking 4+ years to develop their proprietary products come to market in just one year with open-architecture, off the shelf components? This fascinating story starts with a little of IBM's history, followed by the choices that led IBM to chose Intel's CPU and the open architecture that became industry-standard way after IBM exited the PC market.
This video was originally made in 2020, however it has been edited for this special 40th Anniversary edition! Many happy returns, PC!
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Today, August 12th 2021, marks the 40th anniversary of the IBM PC. IBM were late to the game - by 1981, at least 3 other major competitors had been established for 3 or more years, but as we know, history made the IBM PC the industry standard we have today. How did a behemoth of a company, notorious for taking 4+ years to develop their proprietary products come to market in just one year with open-architecture, off the shelf components? This fascinating story starts with a little of IBM's history, followed by the choices that led IBM to chose Intel's CPU and the open architecture that became industry-standard way after IBM exited the PC market.
This video was originally made in 2020, however it has been edited for this special 40th Anniversary edition! Many happy returns, PC!
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![Whats your favourite time for computing? [podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MmULw7sVGx4/hqdefault.jpg "Whats your favourite time for computing? [podcast]
Lets face it... computing in general in 2023 sucks. There are interesting things going on, for sure, but does the computing of the modern age really bring you joy? Id loooove to hear from you and what your favourite period was.
For example, When was the last time you wrote a line of code in QuickBasic and smiled? When is the last time you built your own AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to squeeze a bit more of that 640K? When did you last smell the great smell of thousands of volts warming cathode ray tubes, the clacking of type M IBM keybaords, the ability to do all your tasks in an entirely text-based environment that wasnt slow and sucky?
When did you last think of your computer as a fun thing, rather than a tool? Was it the 40s-60s, 70s, 80s, 90s or even the 00s? Id love to hear from you, as over 200 of you already did on youtube in a poll. Here, I talk to you candidly about the evolution of computers and where my excitement of computers really came in to play.
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