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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: IBM personal computers, IBM BASICA, Industry Standard Architecture, IBM PC keyboard, System request, Micro Channel architecture, IBM 3270, IBM 8514, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Video Graphics Array, Color Graphics Adapter, IBM PCjr, Model M keyboard, IBM Personal System/2, Influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market, IBM IntelliStation, PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes, IBM Personal Computer/AT, IBM PC Series, IBM T220/T221 LCD monitors, IBM 5100, IBM PS/1, IBM Personal Computer XT, IBM 3101, IBM Monochrome Display Adapter, Lenovo ThinkCentre, IBM Aptiva, IBM Disk BASIC, IBM Mwave, IBM PS/ValuePoint, IBM 5110, IBM 5120, IBM Multicolor Graphics Adapter, IBM 5550, IBM 5250, IBM NetVista, IBM 5151, IBM JX, IBM 2260, PS/2E, IBM 3270 PC, IBM 1627, IBM Portable Personal Computer, AMBRA Computer Corporation, FastBack, IBM 2250, IBM Cassette BASIC, IBM PALM processor, IBM System/23, IBM 740, IBM 3196, IBM 3179G. Excerpt: The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton, Florida. Alongside "microcomputer" and "home computer," the term "personal computer" was already in use before 1981. It was used as early as 1972 to characterize Xerox PARC's Alto. However, because of the success of the IBM Personal Computer, the term PC came to mean more specifically a microcomputer compatible with IBM's PC products. Desktop sized programmable calculators by Hewlett Packard had evolved into the HP 9830 BASIC language computer by 1972, with IBM's releasing its own IBM 5100 in 1975. It was a complete system programmable in BASIC or APL, wit...
