IBM PC Day 2022
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Let me tell you, back in the day it was a 5000 dollar inspiration for all the covetousness I could muster.
Luckily, my work afforded me all the keyboard time I could handle and it was the beginning of my career direction changing from the oldie but goodie mainframe and mini days.
Ah, but I did miss the DEC PDP-11 series and MicroVax nonetheless. Something about wire wrapping boards in a backplane for configuration just appealed to me.
This marvel ran at a blistering 4.77 MHz yawn sporting an Intel 8088 microprocessor running on Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system — which they of course marketed as "IBM-PC DOS".
Compaq released the first clone in 1983 and thus began the decline of IBM in the PC business.
Yes, boys and girls I predate the PC by a number of years and I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. I kind of grew into the field ... or it grew into me.
Anyhoo whereas I was once a bastion and subject matter expert as an MS DOS master and now I'm mostly a Unix head. Call me fickle.
Happy IBM PC Day to you !