THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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The IBM PC and the Open Architecture That Became a Personal-Computing Standard

IBM built the 5150 quickly from commercially available parts and published enough technical detail for compatible hardware and software to flourish, turning one product into an industry standard larger than IBM itself.

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MS-DOS and the Operating System That Standardized the IBM PC Ecosystem

MS-DOS became the software layer underneath the IBM PC and its clones, helping turn one machine design into a vast compatible hardware-and-software ecosystem.

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