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We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live.

'Neither by land nor by sea will you find the way to the Hyperboreans'?Pindar already knew this about us.

Beyond the north, ice, and death?our life, our happiness.

We have discovered happiness, we know the way, we have found the exit out of the labyrinth of thousands of years. Who else has found it? Modern man perhaps? 'I have got lost; I am everything that has got lost,' sighs modern man. This modernity was our sickness: lazy peace, cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous uncleanliness of the modern Yes and No. ? Rather live in the ice than among modern virtues and other south winds! We were intrepid enough, we spared neither ourselves nor others; but for a long time we did not know where to turn with our intrepidity. We became gloomy, we were called fatalists. Our fatum?abundance, tension, the damming of strength. We thirsted for lightning and deeds and were most remote from the happiness of the weakling, 'resignation.' In our atmosphere was a thunderstorm; the nature we are became dark?for we saw no way.

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The Original IBM PC 5150 - the story of the world's most influential computer
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This is the story of the first IBM PC - the computer that's the original ancestor of one you probably still own. Today, nearly 40 years after its introduction, modern PC's are used for everything from the kinds of business applications the system was originally designed for, to scientific work, to high-end gaming. But it all started back in 1981 with the IBM 5150.

If you're looking for a more personal take on this computer, watch for my upcoming review of this IBM 5150!

If you want your own IBM PC, they're not cheap but they are plentiful on Ebay, and I'd love it if you used my affiliate link: https://ebay.to/2Nmzcaa

Some credits for some of the images and other things used in this video:

5100: IBM 510 - Wikipedia...
Datamaster: IBM 5322 System/32 Datamaster computer
Mainframe: Image Galleries - TechRepublic...
buckling spring: By Shaddim - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Not Found...
Pet: By Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr, Not Found...
Atari 400: Evan-Amos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8...
Atari 800: Evan-Amos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8...
TI 99/4 Tocchet22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_I...
Vic 20: Evan-Amos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodo...
Heathkit H88: Arthur G Korwin Piotrowski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_...
CGA card: Malvineous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_G...
Datamaster ad: Adtari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhskf...
PC ad(s): La Mazmorra Abandon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQT_Y...
5120 ad: Adtari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_PTP...
5100 ad: Magdy Ragab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m54r...
PC XT photo: Ruben de Rijcke: http://dendmedia.com/vintage/
PC AT photo: MBlairMartin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Per...
Model F AT: daedelus https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:IBM...
PowerPC 601: Dirk Oppelt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Portable PC: Hubert Berberich https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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Modern Classic3 months ago (edited)
Hey guys - one quick clarification about something that's getting a few comments. In the video I say that the PC was 2-4 times faster than its competitors at tasks important to businesses. Keep in mind that I was not comparing clock cycle vs. clock cycle of the CPU alone against only certain other CPU's (I showed more than CPU speed in the chart); I was comparing overall performance in real-world tasks. As we all know even today, there's more to a computer than just its CPU, and the fact that the PC had a very advanced graphics subsystem, support for massive amounts of RAM (for the day) that reduced or eliminated the PC's need to access a disk while within an application, a fast system bus, math co-processor support and a faster floppy and hard drive interface than its competitors, made it much faster overall than those machines at tasks important to businesses (for example, large spreadsheets or relational databases).

Of course, that doesn't mean that some of the machines on my list weren't better at certain other tasks - I'm a big Atari 8 bit and Apple II fan, personally (and am an Apple II owner since 1985), and would choose either of those machines to play games on before the early PC. In fact, I actually made that choice - I chose my Apple IIc at a time when the PC AT was already available!
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RickOShay
RickOShay3 days ago
Excellent video - brings back great memories! Thanks.
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William Kulich
William Kulich3 months ago
I've watched a few IBM PC retrospectives, and this would have to be the best. Very well presented and paced, with content, asides, and comparisons not found elsewhere.
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SkrilHexNukehul
SkrilHexNukehul3 months ago
My father bought an IBM 5150 when it first came out and we still have it to this day.
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SuperNorstShow
SuperNorstShow3 months ago
I would argue that the IBM 5100 was more influential. After all, CERN needs them for their time machine!
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Dave B
Dave B2 days ago
Nine months to ship an empty box? Apple can ship you one in eight, it will also come with a computer in it... that will break on you in a week, and then the company tell you that you were holding it wrong, don't hold your next one you have to buy like that
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La Mazmorra Abandon
La Mazmorra Abandon3 months ago
Thank you very much for mentioning me in the description. Few people do it on YouTube even if they use other people's material.
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Sorax7773 months ago (edited)
In those years PC's (microcomputers were called back then) had been seen for many people like toys. If You look at any review of machines like vic-20, apple II, TRS-80 and so on, You will see their main programs were games. When people looked at the IBM PC, they saw something like: "I.B.M. is a serious company, They don't make toys. Let's take a look". And when they look that the IBM PC programs were productivity applications like Lotus 123 many saw the microcomputer is coming to age. And that's people, was the Real Revolution.
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Atar ו
Atar ו3 months ago
1:05 my waifus just died because of it
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Alexander Mirdzveli
Alexander Mirdzveli3 months ago
The best IBM PC story ever. Thank you!
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JMacQ773 months ago
I worked in the computer lab of my university from 1994 until graduation. We had a 5150 working as the print server/spooler for the whole lab. Somehow, it was able to handle print requests from banks of both Classic and PowerPC Macs, and from Windows computers (probably 60 in total), and I never remember it once crashing or having any kind of mechanical failure. That 5150 was the first computer we'd start up in the lab early in the morning, and the last one that we would shut down at the end of each night. It wasn't even upgraded with a hard drive (and the required higher-wattage PSU). That was the only computer type in the whole lab building that I never remember having run into a problem with. I wish the hardware and software will still made to that standard.
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