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The PC age began 45 years ago with the breakthrough Intel 8088 processor — 8-bit bus fueled 45 years of x86 dominance (tomshardware.com)
2026-08-16 | by Mark Tyson | tags: intel 8088, ibm pc 5150, x86 architecture
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Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory (news.ycombinator.com)
2026-08-13 | tags: donkey.bas, ibm pc, bill gates
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Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT (news.ycombinator.com)
2026-08-12 | by Kali | tags: ibm pc, model f/xt, x86 architecture
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Dell founder shows how a $100 billion empire started 42 years ago — CEO says ‘This one page changed my life’ (tomshardware.com)
2026-08-01 | by Jowi Morales | tags: dell technologies, ibm pcs, university of texas
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The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival (news.ycombinator.com)
2026-07-24 | by View All Posts Technicshistory | tags: ibm pc, atari, commodore
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PCjs Machines (news.ycombinator.com)
2026-07-21 | tags: pcjs, ibm pc, visicalc
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A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk (techspot.com)
2026-07-20 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: floppy disk, 2p game arcade, game development
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I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64 (news.ycombinator.com)
2026-07-17 | by Sung J. Woo | tags: commodore 64, compute magazine, apple ii
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Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (news.ycombinator.com)
2026-05-12 | by R. Stricklin | get Vintage Desktop OS Screenshots → | tags: visi on, sunos, hp-ux
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Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" (arstechnica.com)
2026-04-30 | get Microsoft MS-DOS Source Code Kit → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, 86-dos
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Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code (zdnet.com)
2026-04-28 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | get Microsoft DOS 1.0 Book → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, xenix
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Hobbyist builds a homebrew Intel 8086 ISA accelerator card — maker’s project improves integer multiplication on these retro systems by 250% (tomshardware.com)
2026-04-05 | by Mark Tyson | get Intel 8086 Microprocessor Kit → | tags: intel 8086, isa card, bradthx
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What Happened to Gem? (news.ycombinator.com)
2026-03-20 | by Dave Farquhar | get Gemini Spacecraft Model → | tags: gem, digital research, ibm pc
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I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does (news.ycombinator.com)
2026-03-09 | by Marcin Wichary | get Smartwatch → | tags: fn key, ibm pcjr, apple fn key
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AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991 (news.ycombinator.com)
2026-03-02 | by Dave Farquhar | get Microprocessor → | tags: am386, intel 8088, ibm pc
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This week in 1982, Compaq announced the first true IBM PC clone — it was portable, too, as long as you were comfortable lugging 28 pounds (tomshardware.com)
2025-11-09 | by Mark Tyson | get IBM PC → | tags: compaq, compaq portable, hardware
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