A PC that is compatible with the IBM PC and PS/2 standards; essentially, every Windows PC on the market. This term is rarely heard anymore, but it was widely used in the early days when PC vendors ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Alan Sugar, the British business magnate, celebrated the 39th anniversary of the Amstrad PC1512. He launched this affordable IBM-compatible PC on September 2, 1986. The Amstrad PC1512 was priced at ...

I'm getting nightmares from these config.sys and autoexec.bat files you're posting. I remember the first time I ever tried to get Wing Commander Privateer working with my computer. I hate you, Origin.

IBM released its first PC 30 years ago. Technology Editor Bill Wong contrasts the PC with Apple's iPad 2. August 21, 1981 was the date that IBM's Entry Systems Division released its Model 5150, better ...

Previous decades laid the groundwork for the wide adoption of the internet in the '90s. This piece of '80s technology was a ...

Trying to recreate some of the excitement of an event that happened 33 years ago is a challenge for anyone, but a good place to start is with the bald facts. On 12 August 1981, IBM, at that time the ...

In the mid-1980s, Flight Simulator was one of the biggest PC titles in the business -- and Microsoft is gearing up to launch the beta for Flight Simulator 2020, a game that surprised pretty much ...

A misguided reference to a PC. The term IBM compatible is more accurate, because IBM made the first PC. Even that has little meaning today, because Intel and Microsoft set the PC standards, and IBM ...

In the mid-1980s, Flight Simulator was one of the biggest PC titles in the business -- and Microsoft is gearing up to launch the beta for Flight Simulator 2020, a game that surprised pretty much ...