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HISTORY OF THE APC-ERA PC TIMELINE

APC ISSUE NUMBER ONE MAY 1980

The very first issue of APC went on sale in May of 1980. 41 years and 500 issues later, we’re still going strong!

IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER AUGUST 1981

The first IBM PC laid the foundations of today’s PC ecosystem. Its open architecture and support for third party expansion cards, peripherals and software remain central tenets of today’s PCs.

APPLE LISA JANUARY 1983

The Apple Lisa was one of the first computers to feature a graphical user interface. Though considered a technically advanced machine, its very high asking price stopped it from gaining traction. It was quickly surpassed by the Macintosh.

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