[Wftl-lug] A trip down computer memory lane

[Raul Montagne]

Hi Ole
thanks for  the story and references below... there I found one ... I 
still don't know whether it is funny or what...


     The appointment of John R. Opel as CEO in 1981 coincided with the 
beginning of a new era in computing. Thanks to the birth of the IBM 
Personal Computer or PC, the IBM brand began to enter homes, small 
business and schools.

Though not a spectacular machine by technological standards, the IBM PC 
brought together all of the most desirable features of a computer into 
one small machine. It offered 16 kilobytes of user memory (expandable to 
256 kilobytes), one or two floppy disks and an optional color monitor. 
When designing the PC, IBM for the first time contracted the production 
of its components to outside companies. The processor chip came from 
Intel and the operating system, called DOS (Disk Operating System) came 
from a 32-person company called Microsoft.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1980.html

talueguito
raul

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