{"id":111,"date":"2006-08-11T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T10:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/111"},"modified":"2007-05-19T08:26:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T07:26:04","slug":"happy-birthday-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/111","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is the 25th aniversary of the IBM PC.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/ibmpc.jpg' alt='IBM PC c1981' width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 12 Aug 1981 you could buy a home model of the IBM PC for $1,565 equivalent to about \u00a31,800 today. For that money you got a 4.7MHz processor, 16K of memory, mono sound from a built in 2&frac12;&#8221; speaker and a keyboard. No mouse, 160K disk drives were extra as was a monitor for the 4 colour graphics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u00a31,800 today. For that money you got a 4.7MHz processor, 16K of memory, mono sound from a built in 2&frac12;&#8221; speaker and a keyboard. No mouse, 160K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}