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In July of 1980, IBM representatives met for the first time with Microsoft's Bill Gates to talk about writing an operating system for IBM's new hush-hush "personal" computer. IBM had been observing the growing personal computer market for some time. They had already made one dismal attempt to crack the market with their IBM 5100. At one point, IBM considered buying the fledgling game company Atari to commandeer Atari's early line of personal computers. However, IBM decided to stick with making their own personal computer line and developed a brand new operating system to go with. The secret plans were referred to as "Project Chess". The code name for the new computer was "Acorn". Twelve engineers, led by William C. Lowe, assembled in Boca Raton, Florida, to design and build the "Acorn". On August 12, 1981, IBM released their new computer, re-named the IBM PC. The "PC" stood for "personal computer" making IBM responsible for popularizing the term "PC". The first IBM PC ran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor. The PC came equipped with 16 kilobytes of memory, expandable to 256k. The PC came with one or two 160k floppy disk drives and an optional color monitor. The price tag started at $1,565, which would be nearly $4,000 today. What really made the IBM PC different from previous IBM computers was that it was the first one built from off the shelf parts (called open architecture) and marketed by outside distributors (Sears & Roebucks and Computerland). The Intel chip was chosen because IBM had already obtained the rights to manufacture the Intel chips. IBM had used the Intel 8086 for use in its Displaywriter Intelligent Typewriter in exchange for giving Intel the rights to IBM's bubble memory technology. Less than four months after IBM introduced the PC, Time Magazine named the computer "man of the year"
That's the answer to "who invented the IBM PC?" An IBM Compatible computer is one that wasn't made by IBM, but that has the same functionality. And the answer to who invented that is Compaq. There's a Canadian company named Hyperion who released a computer before Compaq did, but it wasn't as compatible with the IBM PC as was the Compaq.
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IBM has many inventions and inventors.
Depends on how you want them to be compatible.
IBM compatible is a term used to describe a computer, hardware or software that is IBM/PC Compatible. This does not necessarily mean that the computer was manufactured by http://wiki.answers.com/../../comp/ibm.htm.Today, the majority of computers manufactured and used are either IBM or http://wiki.answers.com/../../comp/apple.htmhttp://wiki.answers.com/../m/macintos.htmcompatible.
The first IBM PC is the Compaq Portable.
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IBM no longer produces hardware that is compatible with Windows '98 but it will run on a recent Apple computer within the Virtual Box software. (See links below)
Windows was not designed to run on any particular computer, but rather any computer compatible with the original IBM PC. After IBM stopped making personal computers, Windows was designed to run on any computer with an x86 compatible processor and BIOS.
Alan Hoenig has written: 'WordStar for the IBM PC and compatible computers' -- subject(s): IBM Personal Computer, IBM compatible computers, Programming, Word processing, WordStar (Computer file) 'Introduction to Microsoft Word for the IBM Personal Computer' 'Microsoft Word for the Macintosh' -- subject(s): Macintosh (Computer), Microsoft Word, Programming, Word processing