The IBM PC was launched 12 August 1981 – 40 years ago – wow!

When I was looking at my first Excel articles I found this article from 20 years ago.

Its amazing that PC’s are roughly the same price these days.

I remember using an IBM PC at college in the early 80’s for word processing. Instead of using a typewriter for your assignments you could use the PC and printer.

You had to book times to use it because there were only two PC’s available and they were used 24 hours a day. There were dual floppy drives – one was for the operating system and one was for  data storage  – your files. You carried around a floppy drive with all your assignments on it.