Computer Freezes up at Log On screen in Windows XP

[Unknown]

First IBM PC's did have a color monitor. It was however only green.

 

[Bob I]

Hmm... that article quotes Dave Bradley as saying "...We started to
build a prototype to take - by the end of the year - to a then
little-known company called Microsoft." That completely skips the
story of IBMers going to Digital Research first, but missing
connections with Gary Kildall, and then as a second choice going to
Seattle to see Microsoft.

Timeline and sequence
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_mz063.htm

It also says that it had a color monitor with 16 colors! My
recollection - which may well be incomplete - is that we didn't get 16
colors until EGA graphics debuted, years later. Hmm...looking at it
again, it says the monitor had "16 foreground and background colors",
but that "Its graphics were in four colors". I don't remember having
any color until the Hercules cards sometime in the mid-80s.

That means you could "choose between 16 colors"
http://nemesis.lonestar.org/reference/video/cga.html

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In

I've still got an original IBM PC, and it states right on the processor that
it's an 8086. The 8088 was produced soon after, and I was sorry that I had
rushed into the purchase so soon.

Well, it's hard to argue if you say that's what yours says, but see

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=274

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm

 

[John John - MVP]

monochrome green...

First IBM PC's did have a color monitor. It was however only green.