Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1981
IBM Introduces Their First PC (5150)
With Intel’s 8088, a 16-bit processor with an 8-bit external bus, the 5150 had a significant impact on the PC market, particularly on the enterprise side, which makes it less the focus of this story.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
Movements
computer art, Technology and Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- market, Technology and Art
- Technologies
- computer art, IBM PC, Intel 8088, personal computer
- Organisations
- IBM, Intel
Echoes across time
- 1951 · Edmund C. Berkeley Begins Publishing Computers and Automation
- 1968 · "On the Path to Computer Art” by the Parallel Group
- 1964 · US Army’s BRL Wins Computer Art Content Top Prize for Second Straight Year