PC-COM 40th

PC-COM turns 40 this year

MS-DOS 3.2 was released in April 1986
April 1986 -IBM's first laptops, weighing 12-18 lbs, with a clasmshell design and LCD display, running MS-DOS
May 1986 - Compaq Deskpro 386 - first PC to use Intel's 80386 32-bit microprocessor, offering 4 MIPS performance and backwards compatibility with 16-bit systems
IBM PC-RT - first commercial RISC-based workstation, 1MB RAM, 1.2MB floppy, 40MB hard drive

AT or 101 Keyboard introduced by IBM
IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) was introduced by Western Digital and Compaq
SCSI - 1 was the original SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
IBM announced the IBM Personal Computer 2400 bps (bits per second) Modem, the IBM 5842

Microsoft was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, selling shares to the public at $21 each
The domain ibm.com came online on March 19, 1986
the first cyber law, CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) was enacted in the United States
Tandy announced the Color Computer 3 on July 30, 1986
The first virus for IBM PC, Brain, appeared in January 1986
the Hacker Manifesto was published in Phrack on January 8, 1986
More than 30 million computers were in use in the United States