“This is the computer for just about everyone who has ever wanted a personal system”

It was the IBM 5150, bundled with Bill Gates’ & Paul Allen’s MS-DOS operating system, priced at $1,565 that hit the right chord. With a green monochrome text-only screen, optional 2 floppy drives that stored a pitiable 160 kilobytes (KB) each (translating today using at least 10 floppies to store a MP3 format song!); 40KB of in-built memory, a devastatingly dismal RAM of 16KB expandable to 256KB, zilch hard disk memory (imagine the 1.5GB or 1,572,864KB of hard disk space now essential for Windows XP) and no modem or networking connection whatsoever, it was still fairly “advanced”!

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