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IBM inventor: PC is dead
CBS News ^ | August 12, 2011 | Mark Dean

Posted on 08/12/2011 3:39:08 PM PDT by george76

In our increasingly smartphone-and-tablet computing-centric world, one of the computer engineers who helped design IBM's first personal computer, has made it official: The PC is dead.

Thirty years ago, Mark Dean was part of the original team that helped usher in a personal computing revolution when Big Blue announced its PC. On the anniversary of that seminal announcement, Dean said it is time to move beyond the PC. (see: Today is the IBM Model 5150's 30th birthday)

"My primary computer now is a tablet. When I helped design the PC, I didn't think I'd live long enough to witness its decline," Dean, nowadays the chief technology officer for IBM Middle East and Africa, wrote on a company blog. "But, while PCs will continue to be much-used devices, they're no longer at the leading edge of computing. They're going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records, CRT and incandescent light bulbs."

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computer; ibm; pc
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1 posted on 08/12/2011 3:39:09 PM PDT by george76
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Darn, I was hoping they meant Political Correctness was dead.


2 posted on 08/12/2011 3:40:34 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I hope this isn’t true. Tablets and smartphones are great, but PC’s are still better for certain things.


3 posted on 08/12/2011 3:43:34 PM PDT by barstoolblues (Notes from the Hobbitt Hole. From Hezbollah Hobbitt)
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To: george76
No it not. Same way during the 90s these people told us the telephone and snail mail was dead. Technological progress is evolutionary, not revolutionary since you will always have a certain % of the people who prefer the old way of doing things.
4 posted on 08/12/2011 3:43:41 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: dfwgator

That’s odd. My PC is working just fine.


5 posted on 08/12/2011 3:44:01 PM PDT by WestwardHo
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To: george76

They called it the 5150?

That’s crazy!


6 posted on 08/12/2011 3:44:01 PM PDT by null and void (Day 932. The mob is decisive when the law is not.)
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To: george76

Tell that to hard-core gamers and simmers.


7 posted on 08/12/2011 3:44:27 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: dfwgator

That will never happen as long as there are libtards.


8 posted on 08/12/2011 3:44:45 PM PDT by reg45
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To: george76

Mac lovers will rejoice.

Too bad it’s not the other kind of PC!


9 posted on 08/12/2011 3:45:35 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: george76

That’s what they said about Hitler in 1945, and look he’s been hiding in Argentina the whole time!


10 posted on 08/12/2011 3:48:09 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Revolting cat!

They said that about Elvis, too.


11 posted on 08/12/2011 3:48:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: george76

I seriously doubt the PC is dead. People who use their computers hours per day probably will not want to use tablets and other formats with small screens and small keyboards. It will become a smaller portion of computer sales, but many will not want to use the small, confining, midget computers no matter how powerful they become.


12 posted on 08/12/2011 3:49:23 PM PDT by Will88
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To: george76

When an expert predicts the future, bet against it.

They know what they know, but they do not know what they do not know. I it is what they do not know that keeps their predictions from coming true.


13 posted on 08/12/2011 3:50:00 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (California does not have a money problem, it has a spending problem.)
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To: george76

Apple surged past Exxon in value the other day, for a moment anyhow.

The PC is dying for sure, but not dead yet. I am posting from an overheating lap top right here.

Meanwhile, the IPAD does at least as much as the PC, is more portable, and does not overheat. No viruses as yet either.

PC is gonna be dead soon, just not quite this minute.


14 posted on 08/12/2011 3:52:25 PM PDT by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: george76
"The PC is dead."

Then what the heck am I posting on?

15 posted on 08/12/2011 3:56:39 PM PDT by NoGrayZone ("Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being beheaded." Andrew Klavan of PJTV)
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They can make the computer as small as they want. Just don’t take away my full-sized keyboard with real buttons.


16 posted on 08/12/2011 3:58:34 PM PDT by jonrick46 (2012 can't come soon enough.)
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To: george76

IBM killed the PC with their first so called PC. Prior to their entry, PCs had enough IRQs to handle anything. IBM created a dumbed down standard to ensure mainframes were kept safe. We’ve been paying the price ever since.


17 posted on 08/12/2011 3:59:38 PM PDT by aimhigh
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It might be dead sales wise, but there will be us holdouts. Yeah, all these other gizmos are portable and handy and such, but they are useless to me. I’ll still have a powerful desktop and a landline phone for awhile yet. Yes, I have a smartphone, and a tablet. They aren’t my first choice at home


18 posted on 08/12/2011 4:01:37 PM PDT by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: null and void
They called it the 5150?

I'm listening to Van Hagar 5150... LOL!
19 posted on 08/12/2011 4:03:34 PM PDT by nhwingut (Palin '12... Accept No Other)
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To: george76

Hard to believe this was cutting edge stuff when I learned to repair in the Navy back in the 80’s


20 posted on 08/12/2011 4:03:55 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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