It's already been done (sort of) and looks like it didnt work.
It was called "Anywhere CD" and the man behind it was serial enterpreneur Michael Robertson (he of MP3.com fame).
IBM has an intro piece which leads into a short but interesting set of pages with specifics, genealogy and original press release of the model 5150 and subsequent IBM PC offerings (including the PS/2s).
Digibarn has also a page with a feature and some movies.
They also show the cover of the original brochure for the IBM PC which had a Chaplin lookalike.Unfortunately it's just the cover but I managed to scan the internal pages from my copy and put them on Flickr.
From a quick look the graphic design of the layout frankly is disappointing: overly simplistic and lacking any design value it all looks like it was executed by an amateur without a proper DTP tool (say, a word processor).
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Interesting and funny at the same time. ;-)
If that's the case I'm honestly sorry for the mistake. My apologies to Dellofano.
nda
It's already been done (sort of) and looks like it didnt work.
It was called "Anywhere CD" and the man behind it was serial enterpreneur Michael Robertson (he of MP3.com fame).
nda
Here are some more links.
:)
IBM has an intro piece which leads into a short but interesting set of pages with specifics, genealogy and original press release of the model 5150 and subsequent IBM PC offerings (including the PS/2s).
News.com also has a feature that starts with a Michael Dell interview but frankly it is rather dull.
Much better is the linked previous piece published for the 20th anniversary of the PC.
Digibarn has also a page with a feature and some movies.
They also show the cover of the original brochure for the IBM PC which had a Chaplin lookalike.Unfortunately it's just the cover but I managed to scan the internal pages from my copy and put them on Flickr.
Oh, and... happy birthday, PC!
I'm definately not an English major
Well, if you write definAtely, you definitely aren't, sir.
From a quick look the graphic design of the layout frankly is disappointing: overly simplistic and lacking any design value it all looks like it was executed by an amateur without a proper DTP tool (say, a word processor).