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After reporting on the 15th anniversary of the world wide web<\/a> earlier this week, there’s another important milestone in computing history to highlight today – the 25th birthday of the original IBM PC<\/a> – the 5150.<\/p>\n

\"IBM<\/p>\n

Whilst the 5150 was not the first personal computer, the use of components that were available to other manufacturers led to the development of IBM-compatible PCs<\/a> and today’s PCs and PC servers are direct descendents from the original IBM PC, albeit much more powerful than the 4.77MHz Intel 8088<\/a> with between 16 and 640KB of RAM.<\/p>\n

\"Amstrad<\/p>\n

I didn’t get my first IBM-compatible PC until 1988 when my parents bought me an Amstrad PPC640<\/a> portable computer (it’s still in my loft at home) with an NEC V30 8MHz processor<\/a>, 640KB of RAM, a full-size 102-key keyboard, two 720KB 3.5″ floppy disk drives and a 2400 baud modem (which my secondary school<\/a> let some of my friends and I use for short periods of time to access bulletin boards). It was best described as “luggable” but, paired with the Citizen 120D dot matrix printer (that I also still have at home), it was more than adequate for word processing and saw me through my first year at Uni’ until I used all my childhood savings to buy an Intel 80386<\/a>-based PC clone with a 1MB graphics card, MS-DOS 5.0, and Windows 3.0.<\/p>\n

Fast forward 15 years and you can pick up a PC for just a couple of hundred pounds – or, if you’ve got a few thousand to spend then it’s possible to specify some very high specification PC servers! Earlier this week I was specifying some servers for a virtualisation solution that I’m working on. Each of these servers is an HP DL585 with 4 dual-core 2.6GHz AMD Opteron 64-bit CPUs<\/a>, 32GB of RAM and has a fibre-channel connection to an HP Modular Storage Array with many terabytes of data storage. How mighty oaks from little acorns grow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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