Premiere 40 years agoThe steep rise and sudden fall of the IBM PC
40 years ago, IBM launched a new era in the history of technology with its first personal computer. The IBM PC 5150 was neither the first nor the best computer. But no other computer had as much influence on the industry as the first IBM PC.
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...of the IBM PC 5150, which the user had to pair with their own display device, cost 1565 dollars. Fully equipped, it cost 6000 dollars at the time, which corresponds to just under 18,000 dollars today.