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EINVLKFJDLKFJAnother way the PC differed After considering Alan Alda, BeverlThe bus used in the original PC became very popular, and it was subsequently named ISA. While it was popular, it was more commonly known as the PC-bus or XT-bus; the term ISA arose later when industry leaders chose to continue manufacturing machines based on the IBM PC AT architecture rather than license the PS/2 architecture and its MCA bus from IBM. The XT-bus was then retroactively named 8-bit ISA or XT ISA, while the unqualified term ISA usually refers to the 16-bit AT-bus (as better defined in the ISA specifications.) The AT-bus is an extension of the PC-/XT-bus and is in use to this day in computers for industrial use, where its relatively low speed, 5 volt signals, and relatively simple, straightforward design (all by year xxxx standards) give it A monitor and any floppy or hard disk drives are connected to the motherboard through cables connected to graphics adapter and disk controller cards, respectively, installed in expansion slots. Each expansion slot on the motherboard has a corresponding opening in the back of the computer case through which the card can expose connectors; a blank metal cover plate covers this case opening (to prevent dust and debris intrusion and control airflow) when no expansion card is installed. Memory expansion beyond the amount installable on the motherboard was also done with boards installed in expansion slots, and I/O devices such as parallel, serial, or network ports were likewise installed as individual expansion boards. For this reason, it was easy to fill the five expansion slots of the PC, or even the eight slots of the XT, even without installing any special hardware. Companies like Quadram and AST addressed this with their popular multi-I/O cards which combine several peripherals on one adapter card that uses only one slot; Quadram offered the QuadBoard and AST the SixPak.technical advantages (e.g. noise immunity for reliability).y Sills, Kermit the Frog, and Billy Martin as celebrity endorsers[34] IBM chose Charlie Chaplin's The Little Tramp character?played by Billy Scudder?for a series of popular advertisements, making the star of the anti-corporate Modern Times the mascot of one of the world's most powerful technology companies.[35][2][36][37] Chaplin became so widely associated with IBM that others used the Tramp character, or his bowler hat and cane, in their marketing to symbolize the company.[38][39][40] Although the Chaplin estate sued those like Otrona who used the trademark without permission, PC Magazine's April xxxx issue had 12 advThe IBM PC was immediately successful. By October some referred to it simpy as the "PC".[42] One dealer reportedly received 22 $1,000 deposits from customers although he could not yet promise a delivery date.[8] By COMDEX in November, Tecmar had developed 20 products including memory expansion and expansion chassis.[43] It and other early vendors of products that benefited from IBM's openness rBy the end of xxxx IBM was selling a PC every minute of the business day,[11] and the publicity from selling a popular product to consumers had caused the company to, as a spokesman said, "enter the world". Although the PC only provided 2-3% of sales[1] IBM found that it had underestimated demand by as much as 800%, and because its prices were based on forecasts of much lower volume, the PC became very profitable. By xxxx the IBU had 4,000 employees and became the Entry Systems Division based in Boca Raton,[17] and the PC surpassed the Apple II as the best-selling personal computer.[44] Demand still so exceeded supply two years after the PC's debut that Boca Raton employees, like non-IBM customers elsewhere, had toBy xxxx IBM had $4 billion in annual PC revenue, more than twice that of Apple and as much as the sales of Apple, Commodore, HP, and Sperry combined.[46] A Fortune survey found that 56% of American companies with personal computers used IBM PCs, compared to Apple's 16%.[47] One traditional strategy that IBM did not abandon was aggressive pricing; as competitors began to affect demand for the PC, the company lowered prices to maintain sales.[2] In his xxxx obituary, The New York Times wrote that Estridge had led the "extraordinarily successful entry of the International Business Machines Corporation into the personal computer field". The Entry Systems Division by then had 10,000 employees, $4.5 billion in annual sales, and by itself would have been the world's thirdThe success of the IBM computer led other companies to develop IBM Compatibles, which in turn led to branding like diskettes being advertised as "IBM format". An IBM PC clone could be built with off-the-shelf parts, but the BIOS required some reverse-engineering. Companies like Compaq, Phoenix Software Associates, American Megatrends, Award, and others achieved workable versions of the BIOS, allowing companies like DELL, Gateway and HP to manufacture PCs that worked like IBM's Because IBM had no retail experience, the retail chains ComputerLand and Sears Roebuck provided important knowledge of the marketplace.[2][28] ComputerLand and Sears became the main outlets for the new product. More than 190 Computerland stores already existed, while Sears was in the process of creating a handful of in-store computer centers for sale of the new product. This guaranteed IBM widespread All IBM personal computers are software backwards-compatible with each other in general, but not every program will work in every machine. Some programs are time sensitive to a particular speed class. Older programs will not take advantage of newer higher-resolution and higher-color display standards, while some newer programs require newer display adapters. (Note that as the display adapter was an adapter card in all of these IBM models, newer display hardware could easily be, and often was, retrofitted to older models.) A few programs, typically very early ones, are written for and require a specific version of the IBM PC BIOS ROM.[citation needed] Most notably, BASICA which was dependent on the BIOS ROM had a sister program called GW-BASIC which supported more functions and was 100% backwards compatible and couThe CGA video card, with a suitable modulator, could use an NTSC television set or an RGB monitor for display; IBM's RGB monitor was their display model xxxx. The other option that was offered by IBM was an MDA and their monochrome display model xxxx. It was possible to install both an MDA and a CGA card and use both monitors concurrently[50] if supported by the application program. For example, AutoCAD, Lotus 1-2-3 and others allowed use of a CGA Monitor for graphics and a separate monochrome monitor for text menus. Some model xxxx PCs with CGA monitors and a printer port also included the MDA adapter by default, because IBM provided the MDA port and printer port on the same adapter card; it was in facAlthough cassette tape was originally envisioned by IBM as a low-budget storage alternative, the most commonly used medium was the floppy disk. The xxxx was available with one or two 5-1/4" floppy drives, or without any drives or storage medium. In the latter case IBM intended a user to connect his own cassette recorder via the xxxx's cassette socket. The cassette tape socket was physically the same as the keyboard socket and next to it, but electrically completely different. A hard disk could not be installed into the xxxx's system unit without changing to a higher-rated power supply. The "IBM xxxx Expansion Chassis" came with its own power supply and one 10 MB hard disk and allowed the installation of a second hard disk.[51] The system unit had five expansion slots, and the expansion unit had eight; however, one of the system unit's slots and one of the expansion unit's slots had to be occupied by the Extender Card and Receiver Card, respectively, which were needed to connect the expansion unit to the system unit and make the expansion unit's other slots available, for a total of 11 slots. A working configuration required that some of the slots be occupied by display, disk, and I/O adapters, as none of these were built into the xxxx's motherboard; the only motherboard external connectors were the keyboard and cassette ports. The simple PC speaker sound hardware was also on board. The original PC's maximum memory using IBM parts was 256 kB, achievable through the installation of 64 kB on the motherboard and three 64 kB expansion cards. The processor was an Intel xxxx running at 4.77 MHz (4/3 the standard NTSC color burst frequency of 3.xxxx45 MHz). (In early units, the Intel xxxx used was a xxxx version, later were xxxx/81/2 versions of the Intel chip; second-sourced AMDs were used after xxxx)[citation needed]. Some owners replaced the xxxx with an NEC V20 for a slight increase in processing speed and support for real mode xxxx6 instructions. An Intel xxxx co-processor could also be aThe "IBM Personal Computer XT/370" was an XT with three custom 8-bit cards: the processor card (370PC-P), contained a modified Motorola xxxx0 chip, microcoded to execute System/370 instructions, a second xxxx0 to handle bus arbitration and memory transfers, and a modified xxxx to emulate the S/370 floating point instructions. The second card (370PC-M) connected to the first and contained 512 kB of memory. The third card (PCxxxx-EM), was a xxxx terminal emulator necessary to install the system software for the VM/PC software to run the processors. The computer booted intoThe Portable was an XT motherboard, transplanted into a Compaq-style luggable case. The system featured 256 kilobytes of memory (expandable to 512 kB), an added CGA card connected to an internal monochrome (amber) composite monitor, and one or two half-height 5.25" 360K floppy disk drives. Unlike the Compaq Portable, which used a dual-mode monitor and special display card, IBM used a stock CGA board and a composite monitor, which had lower resolution. It could however, display color if connected to an externaThe AT was designed to support multitasking; the new SysRq (System request key), little noted and often overlooked, is part of this design, as is the xxxx6 itself, the first Intel 16-bit processor with multitasking features (i.e. the xxxx6 protected mode). IBM made some attempt at marketing the AT as a multi-user machine, but it sold mainly as a faster PC for power users. For the most part, IBM PC/ATs were used as more powerful DOS (single-tasking) personal compWhile some people blamed IBM's hard disk controller card and others blamed the hard disk manufacturer Computer Memories Inc. (CMI), the IBM controller card worked fine with other drives, including CMI's 33-MB model. The problems introduced doubt about the computer and, for a while, even about the 286 architecture in general, but after IBM replaced the 20 MB CMI drives, the PC/AT proved reliable and became a lasting industry standard.uters, in the literal sense of the PC name.l monitor or television. DOS, then ran the VM/PC Control Program.[57][58]dded for hardware floating-point arithmetic. IBM sold the first IBM PCs in configurations with 16 or 64 kB of RAM preinstalled using either nine or thirty-six 16-kilobit DRAM chips. (The ninth bit was used for parity checking of memory.) After the IBM XT shipped, the IBM PC motherboard was configured more like the XTs motherboard with 8 narrower slots[dubious ? discuss], as well as the same RAM configuration as the IBM XT. (64 kB in one bank, expandable tAlthough the TV-compatible video board, cassette port and Federal Communications Commission Class B certification were all aimed at making it a home computer,[52] the original PC proved too expensive for the home market. At introduction, a PC with 64 kB of RAM and a single 5.25-inch floppy drive and monitor sold for US $3,005 ($7,716 in today's dollars), while the cheapest configuration (US $1,565) that had no floppy drives, only 16 kB RAM, and no monitor (again, under the expectation that users would connect their existing TV sets and cassette recorders) proved too unattractive and low-spec, even for its time (cf. footnotes to the above IBM PC range table).[53][54] While the xxxx did not become a top selling home computer, its floppy-based configuration became an The "IBM Personal Computer XT", IBM's model xxxx, was an enhanced machine that was designed for diskette and hard drive storage, introduced two years after the introduction of the "IBM Personal Computer". It had eight expansion slots and a 10 MB hard disk (later versions 20 MB). Unlike the model xxxx PC, the model xxxx XT no longer had a cassette jack, but still contained the Cassette Basic interpreter in ROMs. The XT could take 256 kB of memory on the main board (using 64 kbit DRAM); later models were expandable to 640 kB. (The BIOS ROM and adapter ROM and RAM space, including video RAM space [since the video hardware was always an adapter] filled the remaining 384 kB of the one megabyte address space of the xxxx CPU.) It was usually sold with a Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) video card.[citation needed] The processor was a 4.77 MHz Intel xxxx and the expansion bus 8-bit XT bus architecture (later called 8-bit Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) by IBM's competitors). The XT's expansion slots were placed closer together[55] than with the original PC;[56] this rendered the XT's case and mainboard incompatible with the model xxxx's case and mainboard. Intel xxxx and xxxx-based PCs require expanded memory (EMS) boards to work with more than 640 kB of memory. (Though the xxxx can address one megabyte of memory, the last 384 kB of that is used or reserved for the BIOS ROM, BASIC ROM, extension ROMs installed on adapter cards, and memory address space used by devices including display adapter RAM and even the 64 kB EMS page frame itself.) The original IBM PC AT used an Intel xxxx6 processor which can access up to 16 MB of memory (though standard DOS applications cannot use more than one megabyte without using additional APIs.) Intel xxxx6-based computers running under OS/2 can work with the maximum memory.The slots themselves and the peripheral cards however were compatible, unless a rare card designed for the PC hapThe IBM PC Convertible, released April 3, xxxx, was IBM's first laptop computer and was also the first IBM computer to utilize the 3.5" floppy disk which went on to become the standard. Like modern laptops, it featured power management and the ability to run from batteries. It was the follow-up to the IBM Portable and was model number xxxx. The concept and the design of the body was made by the GermanThe IBM PS/2 line was introduced in xxxx. The Model 30 at the bottom end of the lineup was very similar to earlier models, it used an xxxx processor and an ISA bus. The Model 30 was not "IBM compatible" in that it did not have standard 5.25" drive bays, it came with a 3.5" floppy drive and optionally a 3.5" sized hard disk. Most models in the PS/2 line further departed from "IBM compatible" by replacing the ISA bus cThe main circuit board in an IBM PC is called the motherboard (IBM terminology calls it a planar). This mainly carries the CPU and RAM, and it has a bus with slots for expansion cards. On the motherboard are also the ROM subsystem, DMA and IRQ controllers, coprocessor socket, sound (PC speaker, tone generation) circuitry, and keyboard interface. The original PC also adds to this the cassette interface.ompletely with Micro Channel Architecture. industrial designer Richard Sapper.pened to use the extra width of the xxxx's slots, in which case the card might require two slots in the XT. The XT's expansion slot mechanical design, including the slot spacing and the design of the case openings and expansion card retaining screws, was identical to the design that was later used in the IBM PC AT and is still used as of xxxx, though (since the phase-out of ISA slots) with different actual slot connectors and bus standards.unexpectedly large success with businesses.o 256kB by populating the other 3 banks.)t an MDA/printer port combo card.ld run independent from the BIOS ROM.distribution across the U.S.product. The IBM PC became the industry standard.-largest computer company behind IBM and DEC.[44] wait five weeks to buy their own.[45]apidly grew in size and importance.[2]ertisements that referred to the Little Tramp.[35]from previous IBM projects was in its sales and marketing. The company was aware of its corporate reputation among potential customers; an early advertisement began "Presenting the IBM of Personal Computers",[2][25] another stated "My own IBM computer. Imagine that",[33] and a third told developers that the company would consider publishing software for "Education. Entertainment. Personal finance. Data management. Self-improvement. Games. Communications. And yes, business".[31] In addition to its existing corporate sales force the company opened its own stores, and for the first time sold through retail stores such as ComputerLand and other resellers.[2] Because retail stores receive revenue from repairing computers and providing warranty service, IBM broke a 70-year tradition by permitting and training non-IBM service personnel to fix the PC.[1]