According to the folks at Engadget (and others, but I like them best), the original IBM PC turns 30 today! The original IBM PC, called the 5150, had a 4.77MHz 8088 processor, ran PC-DOS for an operating system, came with one or two 5 1/4 inch floppy drives and had 16 or 64K of RAM. It’s amazing how far we’ve come, huh?

This makes me look back on my own PC usage back in those days. I honestly came to the PC party a little late, getting my first DOS-based computer in 1986 with the Radio Shack Tandy 1000-EX. I had a TRS-80 for the years leading up to that, which I got in maybe 1981. I actually only got my first IBM PC in 1988 with a IBM PS/2 Model 25, which was an awesome PC and ignited my love of the IBM Model M keyboard. Ahh memories…

What about you? What was your first PC-based computer?