Everything about IBM Personal Computer

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: IBM Personal ComputerA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Upgrading and repairing PCsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: A comprehensive sequence analysis program for the IBM personal computerCited 432 times
4. Go sideways: Rainbow 100A closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Amiga SidecarA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A comprehensive sequence analysis program for the IBM personal computer

  Cary Queen, Laurence Jay Korn · 1984 · Nucleic Acids Research · 432 citations

• Improved programs for DNA and protein sequence analysis on the IBM personal computer and other standard computer systems

  David W. Mount, Bruce Conrad · 1986 · Nucleic Acids Research · 49 citations

• A DNA sequence analysis package for the IBM personal computer

  L.Mark Lagrimini, Steven T. Brentano, John E. Donelson · 1984 · Nucleic Acids Research · 40 citations

• Strange bedfellows in the personal computer industry: technology alliances between IBM and Apple

  John Hagedoorn, Elias Carayannis, Jeffrey Alexander · 2001 · Research Policy · 38 citations

• SIMSTAT: Bootstrap computer simulation and statistical program for IBM personal computers

  Normand Péladeau, Yves Lacouture · 1993 · Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers · 29 citations

• TRAVEL — An interactive travelling salesman problem package for the IBM-personal computer

  S.C. Boyd, W.R. Pulleyblank, G. Cornuéjols · 1987 · Operations Research Letters · 11 citations

• Computer program for the IBM personal computer which searches for approximate matches to short oligonucleotide sequences in long target DNA sequences

  Eugene W. Myers, David W. Mount · 1986 · Nucleic Acids Research · 7 citations

• Standardized graphics on the IBM Personal Computer

  T. B. Clarkson III · 1985 · IBM Systems Journal · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Upgrading and repairing PCsScott Mueller, Mark Edward Soper · 1988
• Quantum mechanics on the personal computerSiegmund Brandt · 1989
• 📕Management Science Programs for the IBM Personal ComputerMike C. Patterson · 1986
• Discovering Microsoft Works for the IBM Personal ComputerDavid Sachs · 1988
• 📕I. B. M. Personal Computer Assembly Language and ProgrammingPeter Abel · 1990
• 📕Programming the IBM Personal ComputerSeymour V. Pollack · 1983
• 📕The IBM personal computer for beginnersSeamus Dunn, Valerie Morgan · 1984
• Programming the IBM personal computerNeill Graham · 1983

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