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The IBM PC Turns 25

The very first IBM personal computer first appeared no less than twenty five years ago. Michael Dell, the company`s founder, started off using PCs to create homework shortcuts. The vast majority of the people then did not realize what a potential the personal computer has, including Michael`s parents. However twenty five years have passed in constant development and changes, the IBM founder thinks there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Dell tells a little about how the hole thing started. In junior high school he started playing with the first PCs - RadioShack PCs, which were not very expensive and not too powerful. Dell was using it to do his math homework and trying to write programs with Basic. He dropped out of college to start his own company.

When asked what he is using now at home Dell answers: "I am using a Dell Precision 690, which is our high-end workstation. It`s a two-socket system and it`s got two dual-core Woodcrest (Xeon 5100 processors) in there. And I have got two of our 30-inch monitors, so it`s 8.2 million pixels of resolution, which is kind of nice. And I have managed to get a fiber connection to my house, so I kind of dig into that speed on the Internet."