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The original IBM Personal Computer, with monitor and keyboard. The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, spanned multiple models in its first generation (including the PCjr, the Portable PC, the XT, the AT, the Convertible, and the /370 systems, among others), from 1981 to 1987.
Initially, model 1 (4952, Model C), [4] model 3 (IBM 4953) and model 5 (IBM 4955, Model F [4]) processors were provided. Later processors were the model 4 (IBM 4954) and model 6 (IBM 4956). Don Estridge had been the lead manager on the IBM Series/1 minicomputer. He reportedly had fallen out of grace when that project was ill-received.
The original PS/1 (Model 2011), based on a 10 MHz Intel 80286 CPU, was designed to be easy to set up and use. It featured 512 KB or 1 MB of on-board memory (expandable to 2.5 MB with proprietary memory modules), built-in modem (in American models only) and an optional 30 MB hard disk. Later models had an optional 40 MB hard disk.
The IBM System/370 Model 148 (and the Model 138 [1]) were both announced June 30, 1976 [2]. Not only were they both more powerful and better in price/performance than the IBM System/370 Model 145 with a 3145-3 CPU and the IBM System/370 Model 135 with a 3135-3 CPU, respectively, but lower in price.
The IBM 308X is a line of mainframe computers, of which the first model, the Model 3081 Processor Complex, was introduced November 12, 1980. [1] [NB 1] It consisted of a 3081 Processor Unit with supporting units. Later models in the series were the 3083 [2] and the 3084. [3] The 3083 was announced March 31 and the 3084 on September 3, both in 1982.
Seven people, including one American citizen, were hospitalized over the weekend for suspected poisoning after drinking cocktails at a hotel resort bar in Fiji, health officials said Monday.
April 2012 – IBM sells its Retail Store Solutions division (Point-of-Sales) to Toshiba TEC [222] January 2014 – IBM sells its IBM System x business to Lenovo for $2.3 billion. [223] October 2014 – IBM sells its Microelectronics (semiconductor) branch to GlobalFoundries. IBM will pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion over 3 years to take over ...
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