Also presented is a timeline of events in the history of the 8-bit 8080-based and 16-bit x86-based CP/M operating systems from 1974 to 2014, ... IBM releases an upgraded PC with IBM PC DOS 1.1 which supports its Tandon TM100-2 320 KB (327,680 bytes) double-sided, double-density floppy disk drive. The double-sided directory increased from four ...

May 11, 2019 · IBM PC AKA Acorn . The secret plans were referred to as "Project Chess." The code name for the new computer was "Acorn." Twelve engineers, led by William C. Lowe, assembled in Boca Raton, Florida, to design and build the "Acorn." On August 12, 1981, IBM released their new computer, re-named the IBM PC.

Un ordenador personal, computador personal u ordenador, conocido como PC (siglas en inglés de Personal Computer), es un tipo de microordenador diseñado en principio para ser utilizado por una sola persona. Habitualmente, la sigla PC se refiere a los ordenadores IBM PC compatibles.Un ordenador personal es generalmente de tamaño medio y es usado por un solo …

The IBM 5100 Portable Computer is a portable computer (one of the first) introduced in September 1975, six years before the IBM Personal Computer, and eight before the first successful IBM compatible portable computer, the Compaq Portable.It was the evolution of a prototype called the SCAMP (Special Computer APL Machine Portable) that was developed at …

1960s. John von Neumann's article on the "Theory of self-reproducing automata" is published in 1966. The article is based on lectures given by von Neumann at the University of Illinois about the "Theory and Organization of Complicated Automata" in 1949.; 1970s 1970. The first story written about a computer virus is The Scarred Man by Gregory Benford.; 1971. The Creeper system, …

1950s. 1951 LEO I 'Lyons Electronic Office' was the commercial development of EDSAC computing platform, supported by British firm J. Lyons and Co.; 1955 MIT's Tape Director operating system made for UNIVAC 1103; 1955 General Motors Operating System made for IBM 701; 1956 GM-NAA I/O for IBM 704, based on General Motors Operating System; 1957 Atlas …

A computer is a digital electronic machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically.Modern computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs.These programs enable computers to perform a wide range of tasks. A computer system is a "complete" computer that includes the …

The IBM PC XT in 1983, included an internal standard 10 MB hard disk drive and IBM's version of Xebec's hard disk drive controller, and soon thereafter internal hard disk drives proliferated on personal computers, ... Timeline. 1956 – IBM 350A, shipment of prototype disk drive to Zellerbach, SF CA, USA;

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IBM PC DOS, an acronym for IBM Personal Computer Disk Operating System, is a discontinued disk operating system for IBM PC compatibles.It was manufactured and sold by IBM from the early 1980s into the 2000s. Developed by Microsoft, it was also sold by that company as MS-DOS.Both operating systems were identical or almost identical until 1993, when IBM began …