Order of the Bath

Tomorrow is the 25th aniversary of the IBM PC.

On 12 Aug 1981 you could buy a home model of the IBM PC for $1,565 equivalent to about £1,800 today. For that money you got a 4.7MHz processor, 16K of memory, mono sound from a built in 2½” speaker and a keyboard. No mouse, 160K disk drives were extra as was a monitor for the 4 colour graphics.

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