August 12, 2006
the pc turns 25
The PC turns 25 years old today. Microsoft’s Steve Clayton blogs about it here. Besides that, he sent me this cartoon above, drawn by his girlfriend, to commemorate the date. From what I can tell, it looks like it was drawn on a Tablet PC, which is now what I use most of the time.
Happy Birthday, PC. Congrats to Microsoft for being able to stay in the loop for a quarter century. Rock on.
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Microsoft was already well established by then. It was incorporated in April 1975. It created the BASIC interpreter for the MITS Altair which was a Popular Electronics cover story the same year.
This month’s Personal Computer World (online and off) carries quite a bit of IBM PC retrospective stuff if anyone’s interested.
Rock on yourself Hugh – the red wine is out here. thanks for publishing and appreciating Tablet PC based plagiarism!
cheers