{"id":789,"date":"2011-08-08T14:46:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=789"},"modified":"2011-08-08T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:04:31","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-ibm-pc-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/789\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-ibm-pc-and-me","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> My Own IBM Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ibm_pc_woman_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ibm_pc_woman_small.jpg\" alt=\"IBM PC 5150 Advertisement in Byte - 1982\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;The pee cee ate mah leeeegs!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years ago this week, IBM released the very first entry in its Personal Computer line, the IBM PC 5150.  To celebrate, I dug up this very early IBM PC advertisement you see above.  It hails from the tender year of 1982 &#8212; a time when corrective lenses made giant squid eyeballs jealous.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also wrangled up a list of previous IBM PC-related Retro Scans of the Week for you to enjoy (links below).  The first you&#8217;ll see is a sister ad to this one.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/648\" target=\"_blank\">The IBM PC Kid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/58\" target=\"_blank\">Presenting the IBM of Personal Computers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/480\" target=\"_blank\">IBM Taught Me How to Read<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/470\" target=\"_blank\">Stunning IBM PC Paper Art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/111\" target=\"_blank\">Introducing the IBM 5110 Computing System<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 30th anniversary of a machine that started a 30-year computing paradigm is a very big deal (Well, as far as anniversaries go, anyway), so expect to hear more about the IBM PC from me soon.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Byte Magazine, January 1982, p.61 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> When did you first use an IBM PC or compatible machine?  What did you think at the time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The pee cee ate mah leeeegs!&#8221; Thirty years ago this week, IBM released the very first entry in its Personal Computer line, the IBM PC 5150. To celebrate, I dug up this very early IBM PC advertisement you see above. It hails from the tender year of 1982 &#8212; a time when corrective lenses made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}