The ThinkPad list is waxing rhapsodic (well, not entirely -- there are naysayers who seem to think the TRS-80 should have won) about the fact that today is the 25th birthday of the IBM PC. It all started with Mike Stack posting an editorial from today's Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0608050215aug05,0,5842819.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed
The discussion has led to posts like this: >My first was a TRS-80 and: >My first was an HP Portable in 1985 .. and (me): Harumph...my first was an IBM System/360 model 75 with 3MB (1 core, 2 solid state) running VM/370, the first personal operating system! ...phsiii