The "luggable" computer weighed almost 30 pounds and was bigger than most of today's carry-on luggage -- just look at the poor guy in the ad. But, it was Compaq's first IBM-compatible PC ...

Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that ... text-based glory as it would have looked in the early 1980s. (Thanks to [Stephen Walters] for the tip) ...

IBM's second successful commercial computer (the first was the 650). Introduced in 1959 and offered until 1971, the 1401 was an outstanding success. More than 12,000 systems were installed ...

In the 1980s, 30 years after the first commercial use of programmable digital ... The decade saw the arrival of the IBM PC, mobile phones, Microsoft Windows and the world wide web.