{"id":133,"date":"2018-08-07T16:52:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/?p=133"},"modified":"2018-08-07T16:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:52:55","slug":"ibm-pc-gen-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/2018\/08\/07\/ibm-pc-gen-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"The IBM PC joins our Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/08\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-134\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/08\/image001-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/08\/image001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/08\/image001-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/08\/image001.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve completed the final major improvement we planned to make to our display for the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/tag\/great-exhibition-of-the-north-2018\/\">Great Exhibition of the North<\/a>: the insertion of a custom-made shelf into the tallest cabinet. This has given us the room required to exhibit one further artefact: An example of the first generation of <a href=\"http:\/\/moca.ncl.ac.uk\/micros\/IBM.htm\">IBM Personal Computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Enormous thanks to Clive Gerrard, who designed, assembled and installed the shelf, with a little help from the committee volunteers and the Urban Science Building&#8217;s Maker Space for final alterations!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The remaining work we plan for this exhibition is the addition of more photos, videos, contextual artefacts and further explanatory text and links, rather than computers themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As before, we will keep you updated here with all of our planned changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve completed the final major improvement we planned to make to our display for the Great Exhibition of the North: the insertion of a custom-made shelf into the tallest cabinet. This has given us the room required to exhibit one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/2018\/08\/07\/ibm-pc-gen-exhibition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-great-exhibition-of-the-north-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}