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Comment by dansquizsoft

8 hours ago

> They made the PC revolution possible

Yeah they were only half a decade late to the PC revolution back in the day...

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wmf  8 hours ago

They weren't really late. In many people's minds IBM validated the concept of the PC.

  • jacquesm  7 hours ago

    When that happened I'd been working at Tandy (EU version of Radio Shack) for a while and even though we sold computers they were not taken serious until IBM came along and then suddenly we couldn't supply them fast enough.