{"id":869,"date":"2006-08-12T23:45:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T22:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/12\/ibm-pcs-25th-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2006-08-13T00:16:24","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T23:16:24","slug":"ibm-pcs-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/12\/ibm-pcs-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM PC&#8217;s 25th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer firm IBM made technological history 25 years ago on 12 August 1981 with the announcement of a personal computer &#8211; the IBM 5150.<\/p>\n<p>Costing $1,565, the 5150 had just 16K of memory &#8211; scarcely more than a couple of modest e-mails worth.<\/p>\n<p>The machine was not the first attempt to popularise computing but it soon came to define the global standard.<\/p>\n<p>It altered the way business was done forever and sparked a revolution in home computing.<\/p>\n<p>More information and some history of the IBM PC can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4780963.stm\">BBC News<\/a> Website.<!-- E SF --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer firm IBM made technological history 25 years ago on 12 August 1981 with the announcement of a personal computer &#8211; the IBM 5150. Costing $1,565, the 5150 had just 16K of memory &#8211; scarcely more than a couple of modest e-mails worth. The machine was not the first attempt to popularise computing but it soon came to define the<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/12\/ibm-pcs-25th-anniversary\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IBM PC&#8217;s 25th anniversary&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}