IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of the PC
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International Business Machines (IBM), Microsoft, and most of the PC industry celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Personal Computer (PC) Sunday, looking back on one of the key milestones of the 20th century. The original IBM PC--code-named "Chess"--came about as a skunkworks project in one of the company's Florida office parks after IBM declined to simply purchase Atari outright for its Atari 800 computer. IBM wasn't the first company to use the term "personal computer"--that honor falls to HP with its 911A calculator, released in 1968. But by the time the IBM edition hit in August 1981, it had plenty of competition.