Interesting links for the week (weekly)

• IBM PC @ 30: Original review of the Personal Computer Model 5150 – reviews for UK IT professionals – V3.co.uk

  Key points:
  – You could actually use a TV as the monitor
  – The function of the scroll lock key was a mystery even then
  – BASIC (stored in the ROM) came before DOS
  – Esc, Alt + Del was the reboot combo
  And from the review in a nutshell:
  “This is probably the most professionally put-together system I have seen. The only thing missing at the moment is a wide selection of packages, but I rather feel that the whole world and its grandmother will be frantically trying to fill that particular gap.”

  tags: review PC ibm history

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.