Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that ... text-based glory as it would have looked in the early 1980s. (Thanks to [Stephen Walters] for the tip) ...

By 1980 Apple has captured 50% of the personal computer market. In 1980 Microsoft is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August ...