Digibarn Stories:
Erik Klein's photo shoot of the IBM PC and original software

For the 25th anniversary of the IBM PC's launch on August 12, 1981, Erik Klein took the following photos of his IBM PC running DOS 1.0. Thank you Erik for taking all the trouble to shoot these, and folks please please see and join Erik's Vintage Computer Forums and also see Erik's collection of vintage machines. Now for the photos!

Photos of the IBM PC running

Erik Klein reflected in the screen of his IBM PC running BASIC	Full PC	IBM PC with manuals/software
Booting to the date/time setup	Date and time set	Date and time set
DOS DIR of the root and only directory	Another view	Keyboard
Floppy drive	Chasiss and boards/drives (well built!)	Top view of interior
A board	Another view	Yet another view

Key software packages that shipped with the IBM PC on August 12, 1981
(some still in their plastic shrinkwrap!)

A full set! The famous IBM sofware for the original PC	Disk Operating System	DOS 1.0 Diskette
060729ibmpc25th 097.jpg	Software Submissions	Software submission guidelines for the all-important third party developers!
DOS Manuals edge on	BASIC Primer	One Hundres and One Monochrome Mazes
Microsoft Adventure	060729ibmpc25th 048.jpg	060729ibmpc25th 049.jpg
Typing Tutor	Typing Tutor (interior)	Typing Tutor
Microsoft Decathalon	Microsoft Decathalon

Key magazine stories and other documents about the IBM PC

Original IBM PC Hardware Fact Sheet	Interior of Hardware Fact Sheet	Original sales receipt for IBM PC purchased by Erik's father from Computerland
BYTE Cover	Microcomputing cover IBM vs Xerox	Creative Computer cover
Tech Journal cove Thumbs up, thumbs down!	PC Magazine cover Charter issue!	PC World cover Premier issue!

Personal Computer Age
Premier Issue (Jan 1982)

See Also:

Our pages on the 25th Anniversary of the IBM PC

Erik Klein's movies of the IBM PC booting up and running early applications

Our IBM PC 5150