The 5-pin DIN keyboard connector used with the first IBM PC (1981) and second-generation IBM AT (1984). It was subsequently replaced with the smaller 6-pin Mini-DIN connector on the IBM PS/2 in 1987.

PC keyboards also work on the Mac. Since the IBM PC debuted in 1981, there have been four standard keyboard layouts, each one rearranging commonly used keys that annoy users to this day.

the first keyboard to use buckling springs, would appear on the market with the System/23 in August of 1981, a month before the release of the original IBM PC. The IBM Model M keyboard would ...

Computers came with a bewildering and sometimes befuddling array of keyboards. Since the IBM Selectric was the king of typewriters, we assumed the IBM PC keyboard would be spectacular, but it wasn ...

Many computers now offer a detachable keyboard, which you can hold on ... Scripsit 2.0. Both IBM's Personal Computer and the Victor 9000 use a 16-bit microprocessor; both are handsomer than ...

The authors chose the IBM-PC, AT, or XT (which can apply to clones as long as they have expansion slots to accomodate boards) as their example, and use Turbo Pascal (Version 4.0 or greater) throughout ...

Only the keyboard and the system unit itself were new designs from IBM. So why did IBM choose the Intel 8088 processor to be in its first PC? There's actually some debate on this subject.

IBM was, and is, an American business phenomenon ... unit and eh let's see you need a monitor or display and a keyboard. OK a PC, except it's not, there's something missing.

which were offered pre-assembled with a monitor and keyboard. The IBM PC, however, wasn't released for another four years in 1981. The "1977 Trinity" phrase was purportedly coined and popularized ...

With its windowed software environment, graphical programming language, and no-moving-parts keyboard ... applications and it didn’t follow the IBM PC standard, which was rapidly becoming ...

The IBM PC used the Intel 8088 microprocessor ... bulky three-piece unit (CPU, monochrome CRT, and keyboard) with 16K-256K memory, and storage on removable 5-¼” floppy discs.