{"id":32,"date":"2006-08-12T23:02:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T03:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyanglea.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-08-12T23:02:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T03:02:16","slug":"happy-25th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Happy 25th Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday to you!\u00a0 Happy Birthday to you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Well, this birthday boy probably won\u2019t be blowing out any candles, and definitely not eating any cake, but it\u2019s still worth celebrating.\u00a0 Happy Birthday to the personal computer (PC).\u00a0 Or more accurately, happy birthday to the IBM 5150, the first computer model that really took off in the business world.\u00a0 Sure the Apple II was out, as was Atari\u2019s model, but as a business manager would you rather buy a machine from the International Business Machine company or the company named after a fruit?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33\" title=\"IBM 5150\" src=\"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IBM5150_cutout-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"IBM 5150\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IBM 5150<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The IBM 5150 has much in common with the desktops today. Separate keyboard and monitor, for starters.\u00a0 It ran what IBM called PC-DOS which it got from Microsoft (MS-DOS), who bought it from a Seattle based company (QDOS &#8211; Quick and Dirty Operating System).\u00a0 Most computers still run it today, although hidden.\u00a0 The first program made for this program, a spreadsheet called VisiCalc, can still be run on computers today.\u00a0 (You can get it <a href=\"http:\/\/bricklin.com\/history\/vclicense.htm\">here.<\/a>) And it had an Intel processor.\u00a0 Using off-the-shelf components made by someone else\u2019s was new for IBM, which made it possible for other companies to clone its machine.\u00a0 Thus the sale of personal computers exploded.<\/p>\n<p>Price?\u00a0 $1265 + monitor, floppy disk drive (upgrade from cassette drive), and $40 for PC-DOS.\u00a0 Other OS\u2019s were available but they cost from $400-600 (M$ hasn\u2019t always been the most expensive).\u00a0 One other impressive note for the time, both upper and lowercase letters could be used (the Apple II only had uppercase).<\/p>\n<p>IBM sold their first unit 25 years ago today.\u00a0 So Happy Birthday to you personal computer, how would we function today without you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday to you!\u00a0 Happy Birthday to you\u2026 Well, this birthday boy probably won\u2019t be blowing out any candles, and definitely not eating any cake, but it\u2019s still worth celebrating.\u00a0 Happy Birthday to the personal computer (PC).\u00a0 Or more accurately, happy birthday to the IBM 5150, the first computer model that really took off in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,30,41,50,51,70,90],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-birthday","tag-computer","tag-geek","tag-ibm","tag-ibm-5150","tag-old","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}