Which company released its first personal computer on August 12, 1981?

I was once told that IBM stood for "Itsy Bitsy Machines". Even though I knew it was a joke I've always remembered it. International Business Machines!

around that time we got a commodore 64!

I remember that one...my hubby said we'd never need more memory!

At one time it was thought that each continent would need ONE computer, with UK needing one for itself, that meant 6 at the time. There's only me and hubby in this house and we have 1 desktop, 1 laptop, 2 10inch, 5 tablets, 3 ereaders, and about 6 mobile phones. It's scary how much we rely on technology.

Nahald1956, in 1967 I worked at a company that manufactured a data screen. In 1989 I worked at a company that duplicated 3.5 and 5.25" floppy discs. In 2008 the CDs and DVDs were becoming in less demand by their customers. And time marches on.

one company I worked at was tech savvy and we used that computer when it first came out. it was a cool machine with the 3.5 " floppy" drives. one for booting the held progam or data diskettes.

palitja, we had a Vic 20

Player #20031962, Not long before the then head of IBM had said that he see a world wide demand for possibly 4 computers.

The company I worked for at the time got one of these, put it in the corner of the office & told us to spend a couple of hours each week having a play with it as "they might just take off." They not only took off, they took over!

I remember having a TI 1a. Its cursor was a turtle!

Player #35009238, I computerized our small company in 1979. it was an Altos with 2 8" floppy drives ( you could buy a woman's T-shirt that said "8" floppies" on the front)and an external hard drive with a whopping 15Mb capacity. The whole kit, monitors, etc., cost $30,000. Mind you I got a 40 year career out of it.

Mars V, open the Pod bay door, Hal

If you back up one letter in the alphabet, you get HAL as in HAL9000 from Space Odyssey.

I had a Sinclair ZX81, only 1k of memory but you could buy an add on of 16k. It had a touch-sensitive keyboard and a printer that used silver carbon-paper

Birdiemom, Lol! I love it when they're proven wrong.

My first was a Tandy from Radio Shack that came with free MS DOS programming lessons. A big, bulky machine. Now there's a computer in my phone.

Nahald1956, back in 1979 our small company got an office computer. It had a 10mgb harddrive and an 8 inch floppy disc for backup and storage !!! There were 5 slave monitors linked to the computer by external ethernet cable. The word processing programme was MicroPro, then later WordPerfect - both much better than Microsoft back in the day - but more expensive. Microsoft was cheap because it used to sell what were effectively prototype programmes that they 'corrected' and 'developed' through consumer feedback and complaints we thought we would never ever need more than 10 megabytes!!

In 1986, I had a DoD project for "microcomputers," basically laptops. They had no internal memory storage, relying instead on a separate 5.25" floppy drive that was nearly the same size. Later, I was on top of the world when I got an external hard drive that used two cartridges the size of DVD cases, each of which provided a whopping 5 MB of storage! I was certain I'd NEVER need that much space!

Player #14783974, I had a Brother Word Processor that I LOVE. Hot 2 degrees using it!

palitja, I had one of those! I’d completely forgotten til now...

never knew this. i guessed Microsoft