{"id":4021,"date":"2013-08-12T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T23:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-ibm-pc-introduced-2\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T23:16:12","slug":"the-ibm-pc-introduced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-ibm-pc-introduced-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The IBM PC Introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1318\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1319\" title=\"IBM PC 5150\" alt=\"IBM PC 5150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/d0194__250px-IBM_PC_5150.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"181\" \/>August 12,\u00a01981<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FInternational_Business_Machines\">IBM<\/a> introduces its first personal computer, the <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIBM_PC\">IBM PC<\/a> Model 5150. IBM originally intended this model to be a stop-gap computer that would allow them to quickly tap into the emerging personal computer market while taking the time to develop a \u201creal\u201d PC. It was developed in under a year by a team of 12 with the goal of rapid release to market. Therefore, this team was allowed to work outside of the normal IBM development process and use whatever \u201coff-the-shelf\u201d components allowed for the quickest development. This overriding goal of developing something as quickly as possible had monumental unintended consequences for IBM and the computer industry as a whole that are still being felt to this day.<\/p>\n<p>By compromising quality for rapidity, the design of the IBM PC forced software programmers to resort to inelegant methods of software development, hindering the reliability and compatibility of their software. This laid the groundwork for the reputation of the PC as error-prone and frustrating to use. The use of common components and the choice of Microsoft\u2019s DOS as the PC\u2019s operating system allowed other companies to quickly clone the IBM PC. They also allowed\u00a0Microsoft to license their DOS to other companies, giving Microsoft control of the operating system market.\u00a0Ultimately these choices lead to IBM\u2019s loss of control of the platform. IBM never did really get a chance to create their \u201creal\u201d PC. And because IBM was the 800-pound gorilla of the business world at the time, the computer that was supposed to be a stop-gap became the overwhelming computing standard, crushing nearly every other emerging platform in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs was quoted in a 1985 interview, \u201cIf\u00a0\u2026 IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter sort of a computer Dark Ages for about 20 years.\u201d While IBM themselves didn\u2019t win, the creation that they lost control of was the clear market winner for approximately the next 20 years. Many will argue that time was in fact a Dark Age for the home computer, but no one could have predicted that on this day in 1981.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/7bf02__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/12\/the-ibm-pc-introduced\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 12,\u00a01981 IBM introduces its first personal computer, the IBM PC Model 5150. IBM originally intended this model to be a stop-gap computer that would allow them to quickly tap into the emerging personal computer market while taking the time to develop a \u201creal\u201d PC. 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