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Not to be pedantic, but…

>Launched on June 8, 1978, the 8086 powered the first IBM Personal Computer and literally changed the world.

It was the 8088 that powered the IBM PC. (Introduced on July 1, 1979, according to Wikipedia.) Very similar but with an 8-bit bus instead of the 8086’s 16-bit.

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The 8088 was designed in Israel so interestingly the IBM PC CPU even back then was "Israeli." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088

I read something recently about the first PC (not chip) being designed in Boca Raton, FL. The reason was to get space from the suits in NY to do their thing.

Too bad I can't remember the source.

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