The geeky piece of office equipment has quickly blossomed
By Marsha Walton
CNN



Friday, August 11, 2006; Posted: 10:02 p.m. EDT (02:02 GMT)

Old IBM PCs had floppy disk drives, instead of the CD and DVD drives that are common today.

The May-December marriage of a young company called Microsoft and business powerhouse IBM would change the landscape of offices and homes across the globe.

August 12 is the 25th anniversary of the IBM personal computer launch, a pairing of MS and DOS, Microsoft and the disk operating system.

Rest of the story here http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/biztech/08/11/ibmpcanniversary/index.html