{"id":15050,"date":"2019-07-28T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T23:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ibms-first-desktop-computer-3\/"},"modified":"2019-07-28T23:16:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T23:16:28","slug":"ibms-first-desktop-computer-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ibms-first-desktop-computer-3\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s First Desktop Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1898\" title=\"IBM System\/23 Datamaster\" alt=\"IBM System\/23 Datamaster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/6b089__ibm5322-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ibm5322-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ibm5322.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>July 28, 1981<\/p>\n<p>IBM introduces their\u00a0System\/23 Datamaster desktop computer, only two weeks before they introduce their <a title=\"The IBM PC Introduced\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/2011\/08\/12\/the-ibm-pc-introduced\/\">IBM PC<\/a>. Geared towards small business for use as a word processor and data processor, the computer was designed to be set up by end-users without the need of a computer specialist. While now a footnote in history, the importance of the Datamaster is that many of the team members that developed it were re-assigned to the secret IBM PC project. Much of the knowledge they acquired working on the Datamaster went into developing the IBM PC as quickly as possible. For example, the choice of the <a title=\"One Processor to Rule Them All\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/2012\/06\/08\/one-processor-to-rule-them-all\/\">Intel 8088<\/a> processor in the IBM PC was based on the team&#8217;s familiarity with the similar\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intel_8085\" target=\"_blank\">Intel 8085 processor<\/a> used in the Datamaster.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/07\/28\/ibms-first-desktop-computer\/\">IBM&#8217;s First Desktop Computer<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/6b089__12697540.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12697540\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 28, 1981 IBM introduces their\u00a0System\/23 Datamaster desktop computer, only two weeks before they introduce their IBM PC. Geared towards small business for use as a word processor and data processor, the computer was designed to be set up by end-users without the need of a computer specialist. While now a footnote in history, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[880,1241,399,1240],"class_list":["post-15050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-computer","tag-desktop","tag-first","tag-ibms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}