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Happy Birthday IBM PC--25 Years Old.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on August 11

Hmmm. On August 12, 1981, IBM launched the IBM 5150. It cost $1,565.00 and had 16k of memory. Think of that. For that price today, you can buy a computer as powerful as those that first sent people to the moon.

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Reader Comments

Chris Cummings

August 16, 2006 07:02 AM

Forget $1,565: today you can get a computer as powerful as the one that sent astronauts to the moon for free-- your cel phone.

mick

September 11, 2006 08:26 PM

I thought they used a rocket to get to the moon.

Happy Days

October 22, 2006 08:07 PM

Happy Days

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