When was the IBM XT microcomputer released in the market?

A 1970
B 1971
C 1983
D 1986
E None of the above

Correct Answer: 1983

On 8th March 1983, IBM released the Personal Computer XT, short for extended Technology, or PC/XT, or just XT. It came equipped with a 10 megabyte MFM Full-Height Hard Disk Drive with 306 Cylinders, 4 Heads, and 17 512-byte Sectors, was expandable to 640k of RAM on the Motherboard, and came with MS-DOS v2.2.
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