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 {{:c4c:ibm5150_ibm.jpg?200 |IBM 5150}} {{:c4c:ibm5150_ibm.jpg?200 |IBM 5150}}
 With the launch of the first IBM personal computer, the desktop computer had arrived in a shape which most of us would recognise as a computer. Although the first model had only a green screen, 8Mhz CPU and 256K (not MegaBytes!), it had a keyboard and looked familiar.\\ With the launch of the first IBM personal computer, the desktop computer had arrived in a shape which most of us would recognise as a computer. Although the first model had only a green screen, 8Mhz CPU and 256K (not MegaBytes!), it had a keyboard and looked familiar.\\
 +{{ c4c:luggable.jpg?200|}}IBM even produced a "Luggable" version of this, not quite the image of portable computing we have today, but a sign of the things to come.
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 +This had an attached keyboard, small amber CRT for the display, several 8 bit ISA slots and a handle on the back to carry it.
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