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But it did popularize the idea of a "personal" computer for the mass market with the 1981 introduction of a desktop machine featuring a more user-friendly operating system,

Wrong. DOS 1.0 was not significantly "friendlier" than CPM 2.2 or Apple II's OS. IBM's significance was that their getting into the business legitimized in a way that Commodore, Apple, Exidy, Osborne and others couldn't. The deal saddens me. I am the MIS manager for my company, and I avoid buying Red Chinese equipment as well as I can. First, Carly Fiorina chases the engineers out of a company that had the best of them (HP). Now, IBM, whose workstations, servers and notebooks were solid (e.g. Intellistation) even if their Acer-made desktops weren't has sold the whole business to a company owned by the Communist Chinese government! If this keeps up, I am going to wind up buying Intel brand motherboards and assemble the user's computers and company servers myself!

First, Carly Fiorina chases the engineers out of a company that had the best of them (HP). Now, IBM, whose workstations, servers and notebooks were solid (e.g. Intellistation

Whats going on over at HP? I thought they were in good shape.