Dell museum to increase western Iowa tourism
Dell computer is expected to open a museum of sorts in Sioux City Iowa to show off the history of the PC. In an effort to increase western Iowa tourism the city decided to host the site. The museum will start from the early days of when PCs when most were purchased as kits to assemble at home and the only storage device was a cassette tape and continue from there to present day. It will explain the days of the PC wars where IBM finally won out in the specification area and will include the software war where IBM was first a partner with Microsoft and then a competitor. Most people will be surprised that it wasn’t Window 95 that caused the riff, but rather DOS 4.1. There will be a small display showing the roll that Apple played in shaping the world of PCs, but it is almost as an afterthought as that part of the PC world was almost separate. You will see old processors still in working condition such as the 8088 through the 80486 and be able to compare their relative speeds. The display breaks there and the Pentium family is in a separate display as it is felt that the introduction of the Pentium processor was a real breakthrough in technology.
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