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From: geiser@apollo.HP.COM (Wayne Geiser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Historical Dates for PC's Needed
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Date: 13 Jul 90 14:25:00 GMT
References: <31653@cup.portal.com>
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In article <31653@cup.portal.com>, mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert
Thorson) writes:
|> [The following is a repost of an article which seems to have failed to
|> leave my site.  My apologies if you get two copies.]
|> 
|> I need to get some historical dates for the introduction of PC technology.
|> Please correct my list:
|> 
|> PC - 1980 or so

August 14, 1981

|> AT - 1984?
|> PS/2 - 1987
|>  
|> 8086 - 1978 or 79
|> 286 - 1983?
|> 386 - 1985? 86?
|> 486 - April 89

Sorry I can't fill in more.

Wayne Geiser
Apollo Computer, Inc. - A subsidiary of Hewlett Packard
geiser@apollo.hp.com

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