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, fact-checked September 2026.
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