22 Jul
2021
22 Jul
'21
10:32 a.m.
Hard to believe but in August 1981 IBM introduced its PC and along came all those Charlie Chaplin advertisements. The IEEE just published a short history of the PC extracted from my history book, *IBM. *I thought it might be of some interest to my fellow colleagues in SIGCIS. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/how-the-ibm-pc-won... Jim Cortada -- James W. Cortada Senior Research Fellow Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota jcortada@umn.edu 608-274-6382