August 12, 2006

the pc turns 25

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pc25abc.jpg
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.

2 Responses to “the pc turns 25”

  1. David Tebbutt says:
    August 12, 2006 at 1:34 pm

    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.

  2. steve clayton says:
    August 12, 2006 at 8:46 pm

    Rock on your­self Hugh — the red wine is out here. thanks for publishing and appre­cia­ting Tablet PC based pla­gia­rism!
    cheers