Question: What was the code name of IBM’s first personal computer?
Answer: The Acorn
Code-named The Acorn, the first IBM-PC was developed by a team of 12 engineers at IBM’s Boca Raton research and development center. The engineers were given unprecedented autonomy and just one year to create their product. Rather than develop all of the components and operating system in-house, as Apple had, they decided to forge the product from components made by other companies: a DOS operating system and BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft’s Bill Gates, an 8088 processor by Intel, a disk drive by Tandon, power strips by Zenith, circuit board by SCI Systems, and a printer by Epson.
