Tag IBM Personal Computer

August 25, 2011

Happy Birthday: Linux is 20 years old

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding, Featured Tag Android, anniversary, ARM, development, IBM, IBM Personal Computer, Internet, Linux, sgi, tools, wintel

So Linux is 20.. It's come a long way from the home-brew operating system that was for IBM-AT clones that Linus Torvalds imagined back then. At the time he was…

August 12, 2011

A brief history of the IBM PC, thirty years on.

By John Dixon in Featured Tag anniversary, BIOS, board, Cable, capacity, change, Cloud, Dell, history, HP, htc, HTTP, IBM, IBM Personal Computer, Intel, Internet, Microsoft, package, printer, ram, reflections, seagate, servers, shared, sharing, space, standard, switch, wintel

30 years ago today, a new office automation device was officially launched by IBM at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. August 12, 1981, marked the launch of the…