Marketed as one of the first personal computers, the IBM 5150 consisted of a system ... existed before this date, the IBM PC ushered in the availability of computers for everyone by creating an ...

At the risk of stating the obvious, a PC is more than just its processor ... as [GloriousCow] shows us by bus-sniffing the original IBM Model 5150. A little background is perhaps in order.

How that came to be is no secret, of course: IBM chose the Intel 8088 to power its model 5150 PC back in the early 1980s, and since it became the dominant PC platform, everyone else followed suit.