Would you spend $3,886.19 for a computer? That was the equivalent cost of the first personal computer that IBM released on Aug. 12, 1981. The actual starting price was $1,565. Today we take fast printers, high-impact graphics and big memory cards for granted. Some of the cutting-edge features of the original IBM PC included:
* A color monitor with 16 foreground and background colors
* "Multiple 32K and 64K memory cards that could be plugged into the option slots to increase memory to 256K." (IBM)
* Two diskette drives
No comments:
Post a Comment