The personal computer industry began in 1977 ... In 1986, Compaq ushered in the first Intel 386-based machine. A year later, IBM introduced the PS/2 with improved graphics, a new 3.5" floppy ...

By the late seventies, even IBM had begun to notice the explosive growth of personal computer companies like Apple. Commercial The Apple 2 - small inexpensive and simple to use the first ...

Software Arts develops the first spreadsheet program ... is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August, 1981. The Apple Macintosh ...

We saw the first personal computer introduced when Eddie Roberts debuted the Altair 8800 in 1975. The Apple I and II followed in 1976 and 1978, and the IBM PC in 1981. At the 25th birthday party ...

We consider todays Macs and Dells to be the ultimate in sleek, tech-centric product design, but from the industry's earliest days, the power of the microchip was conveyed first and foremost through ...