Flashback

25: On PC Clones & The End of the Road for IBM’s Personal Computer Business

IBM quickly lost control of the market it had helped create, going from industry-leader to quietly exiting the personal computer business in just a couple of decades. Links and Show Notes: I Think We're A Clone Now (OFFICIAL APPLE VIDEO) - YouTube "Phoenix Says Its BIOS May Foil IBM's Lawsuits" The rise of the clones - A comprehensive history of the PC | TechRadar Send in the Clones - CHM Revolution Columbia Data Produces Introduces the MPC 1600, the First IBM PC Compatible Computer : History of Information Columbia Data Ready to Launch Its First Public Stock Offering - The Washington Post Columbia Data Products Compaq and Hyperion - The First IBM Clones - The 8-Bit Guy on YouTube Memory lane: Remembering the Compaq Portable | ZDNet Dynalogic Hyperion computer HP-150 - Wikipedia How does the Kindle Touch touch screen work? - Quora The Tandy 1000 - The best MS-DOS computer in 1984 - The 8-Bit Guy on YouTube Rainbow 100 - Wikipedia Why did IBM abandon the PC? - Quora IBM sells PC group to Lenovo - CNET 10 Years Later, Looking Back at the IBM-Lenovo PC Deal | PCMag Ex-IBM CEO revisits selling PC business - The Verge Stephen Hackett (@ismh) / Twitter Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) / Twitter Cortex #123: 2022 Yearly Themes - Relay FM

24: Later IBM PC Models

The first IBM PC kicked off what would be a line of computers that would be sold through the 1980s. This week, Quinn and Stephen hit the high points of this beige wave. This episode of Flashback is sponsored by: The Intrazone, by Microsoft SharePoint: Your bi-weekly conversation and interview podcast about SharePoint, OneDrive and related tech within Microsoft 365. Links and Show Notes: OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ IBM PC XT - Model 5160 PC5271 (3270 PC) IBM PCjr computer THE CHANGING IMAGE OF I.B.M. - The New York Times Ungeniused #60: The Cola Wars and New Coke - Relay FM IBM 5140 (PC Convertible) OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ IBM PC AT Brand New Model F Keyboards – The Model M Predecessor: Mechanical Capacitive Buckling Spring Keyboards with NKRO OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ IBM 5140 Convertible IBM PC Convertible | The Art Institute of Chicago OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ IBM PC XT 286

23: IBM's Search for an Operating System

With its PC built, IBM needed to find an operating system that would run on it. Its choice would change the computer industry forever. Links and Show Notes: The Computer Chronicles - Gary Kildall's Death - YouTube The Gary Kildall Legacy The complete history of the IBM PC, part one: The deal of the century | Ars Technica The complete history of the IBM PC, part two: The DOS empire strikes | Ars Technica

22: Building the Personal Computer

The IBM Personal Computer was developed in a shockingly short period of time. This time, Quinn and Stephen discuss the machine's hardware as well as some of the company's earlier attempts at personal computers. This episode of Flashback is sponsored by: Clean My Mac X: Your Mac. As good as new. Get 5% off today. Links and Show Notes: macOS 12 Monterey Screenshots – 512 Pixels The ‘1977 trinity’ and other era-defining PCs | CyberNews IBM 5100 computer IBM 5322 System/32 Datamaster computer Project Chess: The Story Behind the Original IBM PC | PCMag IBM Archives: The birth of the IBM PC IBM100 - The PC The complete history of the IBM PC, part one: The deal of the century | Ars Technica Snow White design language - Wikipedia IBM 5161 - Computer - Computing History Review: The 14-inch MacBook Pro Resets the Timeline – 512 Pixels

21: The International Business Machines Corporation

This season on Flashback, Quinn and Stephen are covering the rise — and fall — of IBM's PC business, but first: some background on the enormous company that Apple and so many others lived in the shadow of back in the 80s. This episode of Flashback is sponsored by: Clean My Mac X: Your Mac. As good as new. Get 5% off today. Links and Show Notes: Young Steve Jobs Gives IBM the Finger IBM - Archives - History of IBM - United States International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) | Selling the Computer Revolution | Computer History Museum History of IBM: Timeline and Facts - TheStreet The History of IBM: the Personal Computer to Watson - YouTube IBM and World War II - Wikipedia IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation - Amazon IBM System/360 - Wikipedia Computer History: IBM System/360 Mainframe 1964 Original Announcement, Transistors, Data Processing - YouTube IBM Archives: System/360 Announcement Don Says: "I Don't Think About You At All" - YouTube