{"id":882,"date":"2012-07-16T14:40:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T19:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2012-07-16T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T19:46:14","slug":"the-secret-history-of-microsoft-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/882\/the-secret-history-of-microsoft-hardware","title":{"rendered":"The Secret History of Microsoft Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/300240\/the-secret-history-of-microsoft-hardware\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcmag\/secret_microsoft_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Secret History of Microsoft Hardware on PCMag.com\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s recent announcement of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/en\/us\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Surface tablet line<\/a> has brought a lot of attention to the history of Microsoft&#8217;s hardware products.  Unfortunately, most accounts of that history are sorely lacking, rarely going beyond Microsoft&#8217;s involvement in PC peripherals like mice.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d remedy that gap in history by digging back into the past and bringing to light a forgotten era of Microsoft hardware &#8212; all of which, it just so happens, launched in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The result, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/300240\/the-secret-history-of-microsoft-hardware\" target=\"_blank\">The Secret History of Microsoft Hardware<\/a>,&#8221; is now live over at PCMag.com.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s recent announcement of its Surface tablet line has brought a lot of attention to the history of Microsoft&#8217;s hardware products. Unfortunately, most accounts of that history are sorely lacking, rarely going beyond Microsoft&#8217;s involvement in PC peripherals like mice. I thought I&#8217;d remedy that gap in history by digging back into the past and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40,10],"tags":[88,157,133,102,156,159,158],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-macintosh","category-computers","tag-freelance-work","tag-hardware","tag-ibm-pc","tag-macintosh","tag-microsoft","tag-pcmag","tag-slideshow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","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=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}