Ibms Personal Computer by Chris Devoney (1 items)

Que On Systems, 1983. Paperback. Fair.
IBM’s Personal Computer (1983) by Chris DeVoney. Que On Systems. ISBN: 0880220260. Condition: Fair. Sold by Crappy Old Books, where the future arrives in beige and requires at least two floppy disks.

There are books about revolutions. And then there are books written quietly, earnestly, and completely unaware that they are describing one. IBM’s Personal Computer is the latter — a 1983 manual from the dawn of the PC age, when “personal computer” sounded slightly indulgent, possibly unnecessary, and definitely expensive.

This is a guide from the era when computing left the climate-controlled sanctity of corporate mainframes and landed, blinking, on ordinary desks. IBM — that cathedral of enterprise respectability — had decided that normal humans might want a computer. A radical thought. A machine not for governments or banks, but for offices, hobbyists, and those brave souls who believed typing commands into a… Read more