[Revolting cat!]

I don't get it. So somebody else will be selling personal computers labeled "IBM PC"?

[atomicpossum]

IBM defined the platform, but it's never been situated to take charge of the market.

[sevry]

But it's because of that pricing that Apple stayed out of the market under Sculley's mismanagement. Apple did, does, have superior machines in many ways. But they could have made some effort to outsource and reduce prices.

The PC adopted the 'backplane' card and floppy as hard drive storage design of existing hobbyist boxes, including the Apple II, which briefly because of spreadsheets actually was a corporate and business computer, worldwide. But the PC was different in its use of the BIOS chip. It's a good thing that the PC became a generic commodity, however. It's not necessarily a good thing that Windows conquered 'the pod' about the time that the Internet started to grow with Mosaic, early 90s.

[Petronski]

Out of some excessive sense of journalistic standards, the NYT insists on putting the periods in I.B.M., yet have no qualms with politicizing their news coverage with overt bias.

[dr_who_2]

Little wonder. Don't think I've ever bought a computer peripheral from IBM that didn't have a problem of some sort.

[Cobra64]

First of all, it is not "I.B.M."

Regardless, I have worked on several IBM PC projects. One in RTP in Raleigh, NC, and another for IBM PC Latin America.

I could relate countless stories of the ineptitude of their business practices.

[Straight Vermonter]

As an IBMer with a substantial portion of my investments in IBM stock I say good riddance. The PC division has dragged down this company for at least 10 years.